How to say "six" in Arabic
CognateMeaningsix
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
سِتَّة
sittaסתה
ستة
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
שישה
shishaشِيشَا
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
س-ت-تHebrew root
ש-שBoth descend from Proto-Semitic *shidth-, whose awkward consonant cluster each language smoothed its own way: Hebrew to שש, Arabic to sitt.
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
ستَّة
settaסתהDarija: setta.
In a phrase
سِتَّة أَسَابِيع
sittat asābīʿסתת אסאביעsix weeks