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سِتّ
six /ˈsitt/
adjectiveA1#528 most common
Also: 6
Example sentences
عِنْدِي سِتُّ بَناتٍ.
I have six daughters.
فِي البَيْتِ سِتُّ غُرَفٍ.
There are six rooms in the house.
تَعَلَّمَتْ أُخْتِي سِتَّ لُغاتٍ فِي الجامعة.
My sister learned six languages at university.
قَطَعْنا الطَّريقَ فِي سِتِّ ساعاتٍ رَغْمَ الازْدِحام.
We covered the road in six hours despite the traffic.
لَمْ تَسْتَغْرِقِ المُفاوَضاتُ سِوى سِتِّ جَلَساتٍ قَبْلَ التَّوَصُّلِ إلى اتِّفاق.
The negotiations took only six sessions before an agreement was reached.
على مَدى سِتِّ سَنَواتٍ مُتَتاليةٍ ظَلَّتِ المُؤَسَّسةُ تَتَصَدَّرُ القِطاعَ دونَ مُنازِع.
Over six consecutive years, the institution kept leading the sector unchallenged.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | سِتُّ (sittu) | None |
| Genitive | سِتِّ (sitti) | None |
| Accusative | سِتَّ (sitta) | None |
| Vocative | None | None |
Word family
سِتّةsix (with masculine nouns)
سادِسsixthسِتّونsixty
سُدُسa sixth, one of six parts
سِتّمائةsix hundred
Etymology
سِتّ is the cardinal number six in the form used to count feminine nouns. It descends from Proto-Semitic *šidṯ-, in which an older consonant cluster simplified to the doubled t of the modern word. The same root gives Hebrew shesh and Aramaic shitta.
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