सिफ़र
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Cardinal: शून्य (śūnya), सिफ़र (sifar) Ordinal: शून्यवाँ (śūnyavā̃) |
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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Classical Persian صفر (sifr), from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “zero; empty, void”), itself a calque of Sanskrit शून्य (śūnya). Cognate of Punjabi ਸਿਫ਼ਰ (sifar) and English zero.
Pronunciation[edit]
Numeral[edit]
सिफ़र • (sifar) m (Urdu spelling صفر) (cardinal)
References[edit]
- Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “सिफ़र”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “sifr”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press