How to say "sixteen" in Arabic

Cognate

Meaningsixteen

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

سِتَّةَ عَشَرَ

sittata ʿasharסתה עשר

ستة عشر

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

שישה עשר

shisha asarشِيشَا أَسَار

How the two words are related

Cognate

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

Arabic root

س-ت-ت

Hebrew root

ש-ש

Both descend from the same Proto-Semitic 'six' seen under שש/sitt, here fitted into the shared teen frame.

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

Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria

سِتَّعَش

sittaʿashסתעש

Clipped to a single word in speech: sittaʿash.

Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta

سِتَّاشَر

sittāsharסתאשר

Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes

سطَّاش

seṭṭāshסטאש

سِتَّةَ عَشَرَ عَام

sittata ʿashar ʿāmסתה עשר עאם

sixteen years