How to say "seventy" in Arabic

Cognate

Meaningseventy

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

سَبْعُون

sabʿūnסבעון

سبعون

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

שבעים

shivimشِيڤِيم

How the two words are related

Cognate

Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.

Arabic root

س-ب-ع

Hebrew root

ש-ב-ע

שבעים and sabʿūn: same root, same plural device, same number.

How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.

Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria

سَبْعِين

sabʿīnסבעין

Everyday form: sabʿīn.

Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta

سَبْعِين

sabʿīnסבעין

Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes

سبْعِين

sebʿīnסבעין

سَبْعُون سَنَة

sabʿūn sanaסבעון סנה

seventy years