stin ستين
Moroccan Darija · numeral
“stin” (ستين) is a numeral in Moroccan Darija meaning sixty.
Meanings
- sixty
Usage
Stin is the number sixty in everyday usage in Morocco. It is placed before the noun in the singular: stin derhem, stin 3am. It appears in compound numbers, where the unit comes first, joined by w: wa7ed w stin (sixty-one), sta w stin (sixty-six). It also appears in the fixed expression b sta w stin kchifa, meaning "with great difficulty, barely". This is used colloquially to stress that something was done with great effort or reluctantly. It should not be taken literally. For an age, one commonly says fih stin 3am.
Example
فوق من ستين درجة
foq mn stin daraja
“above sixty degrees”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “stin” but also “sttin”, “settin”, “sattin” and “setin”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “stin” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “sixty”: stin in Tunisian.