संख्या

Hindi

Etymology

From Sanskrit.

Noun

संख्या • (saṃkhyā) f

1. number
2. reckoning, counting
3. a calculation
4. grammatical number

References

• McGregor, R.S, ed. The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, Oxford university press. 1993
• Platts, John T. A dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English Oxford. 1884.

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Sanskrit

Noun

संख्या (saṃkhyā) f

1. a number, sum, total
2. reckoning or summing up
3. numeration
4. calculation

References

• Cappeller, Carl 1891: A Sanskrit-English dictionary, Strassburg.
• Monier-Williams, Monier 1899: Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Oxford.