How to say "sixty" in Arabic

Cognate

Meaningsixty

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

سِتُّون

sittūnסתון

ستون

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

שישים

shishimشِيشِيم

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

שישים and sittūn: the same 'six' root, pluralized the same way in each language's own grammar.

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

Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria

سِتِّين

sittīnסתין

Everyday form: sittīn.

Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta

سِتِّين

sittīnסתין

Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes

ستِّين

settīnסתין

سِتُّون دَقِيقَة

sittūn daqīqaסתון דקיקה

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