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1) Subject: ishmi3na sittiin?
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Date: 07 Jul 2010
From: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal; font-size: medium; ">Jan Juchelka <</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal; font-size: medium; "><a href="mailto:janjj@getmail.no" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">janjj@getmail.no</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal; font-size: medium; ">></span>
Subject: ishmi3na sittiin?
In arabic the number 60 is used as an intensifier (Like: (la mu’axza) ibn sittiin kalb and rouh fi sittiin dahya).
Other numbers seem also to be used like ‘ultillak miit marra and ma3a alf(een) salaama. The use of 100/1000 and even 2000 seems for me somehow logic as an exaggeration. But I wonder why exactly 60, and not any other numbers like foe example 50 or 60 (although it seems 70 is used to intensify 60: sittiin fi sab3iin)has become an intensifier.
Is there any special meaning behind the number 60 that could explain why it is used this way?
Jan
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