باون
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See also: پاؤں
Urdu
[edit]| [a], [b] ← 51 | ۵۲ 52 |
53 → |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal: باوَن (bāvan) Ordinal: باوَنْواں (bāvanvā̃) | ||
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Prakrit 𑀩𑀸𑀯𑀡 (bāvaṇa), 𑀩𑀸𑀯𑀡𑁆𑀡 (bāvaṇṇa), from Sanskrit द्वापञ्चाशत् (dvāpañcāśat).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /bɑː.ʋən/
Numeral
[edit]باوَن • (bāvan) (Hindi spelling बावन) (cardinal number)
- fifty-two
- باوَن تولے پاؤ رَتِّی ― bāvan tole pāo rattī ― to the last grain, absolutely precisely (literally, “fifty-two and tolās and one-fourth rattī [one ninety-sixth of a tolā]”)
Further reading
[edit]- “باون”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “باون”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 98
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dvāpañcāśat”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 380