five: the cardinal number 5
This is simply the number five. It counts things the way any number does, and in the New Testament it always means a plain quantity of five: five loaves, five sparrows, five husbands, five talents, five months, five kings. There is no hidden or symbolic sense to decode; when a writer says five, he means five.
What makes the word memorable is the company it keeps in some of the best-known scenes in the Gospels. Five loaves feed the five thousand. Five wise and five foolish young women wait for the bridegroom. A servant is given five talents and trades them into five more. A man begs off the great banquet because he has bought five yoke of oxen. Paul would rather speak five plain words that teach than ten thousand in an unknown tongue. In every case the count is literal, but the round, easily pictured number helps the story stick in the memory.
Because it is an ordinary counting word, it reads the same in any language. The only care a reader needs is to keep it as a quantity and not to load it with meanings the text never gives it.