How to say "ninety" in Arabic

Cognate

Meaningninety

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

تِسْعُون

tisʿūnתסעון

تسعون

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

תשעים

tishimتِيشِيم

How the two words are related

Cognate

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

Arabic root

ت-س-ع

Hebrew root

ת-ש-ע

תשעים and tisʿūn: the tightest of the digit matches, now pluralized in parallel.

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

Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria

تِسْعِين

tisʿīnתסעין

Everyday form: tisʿīn.

Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta

تِسْعِين

tisʿīnתסעין

Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes

تسْعِين

tesʿīnתסעין

تِسْعُون دَقِيقَة

tisʿūn daqīqaתסעון דקיקה

ninety minutes