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The word
سِنّ

sinn

tooth, tusk, point or tip
Arabicسِنّ
Arabizisinn
Translationtooth, tusk, point or tip
TypeNoun
Audio
MSA audio
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

سِنّ reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.

01
Letter
س
sīn
s

A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.

Type:S
02
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.

Type:Shift+A
03
Letter
ن
nūn
n

A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.

Type:K
04
Diacritic
ـّ
shadda
double

Doubles the letter it sits on; hold the consonant a beat longer.

Type:Shift+`
← First letter shown leftmost; the actual word is read right-to-left in script.
Arabizi

What does sinn mean in Arabizi?

sinn is how you write سِنّ in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “tooth, tusk, point or tip”. No numbers in this one; it spells out in plain Latin letters.

New to the chat alphabet? See how every letter and number maps: the Arabizi → Arabic guide. Got it the other way round, with Arabic script to convert? That is the Arabic to Arabizi converter.

How to type it

The keystrokes, in order.

On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 4 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.

Want the keys under your fingers first? The mixed session on our Arabic typing practice page runs through words from every set.

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Sequence
  1. 01Sس
  2. 02Shift+Aـِkasra
  3. 03Kن
  4. 04Shift+`ـّshadda
Composedسِنّ
The full set

Feminine and plural forms.

Arabic words change with gender and number. Here’s the full set for sinn:

FormArabicArabiziUse
Singular · currentسِنّsinnthe base form, for one
Pluralأَسْنانasnanfor three or more
سِنّ
Practice

Type سِنّ until your fingers know it.

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The definition is adapted from the Wiktionary entry, whose contributors publish it under CC BY-SA 4.0. The frequency rank counts how often the word appears in film and TV subtitles (OpenSubtitles, via Hermit Dave’s FrequencyWords). More on the acknowledgements page.