بیست

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See also: بيست and بئست

Baluchi

Numeral

بیست (bíst)

  1. twenty

See also


Central Kurdish

Central Kurdish cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : بیست (bîst)
    Ordinal : بیستەم (bîstem)
    Ordinal II : بیستەمین (bîstemîn)

Etymology

Compare Persian بیست (bist).

Numeral

بیست (bîst)

  1. twenty; 20

Persian

Dari بيست
Iranian Persian
Tajik бист

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (wyst' /⁠wīst⁠/) (Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫇𐫏𐫘𐫤 (wyst /⁠wīst⁠/) ) [1] Old Persian 𐎻𐎡𐎰𐎫 (vi-i-θ-t /⁠*wīθati⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *HwiHcati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HwiHćati from Proto-Indo-European *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti (two-ten). Cognates include Avestan 𐬬𐬍𐬯𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (vīsaiti), Kurdish, Khotanese [script needed] (bistä), Ossetian инсӕй (insæj), Sanskrit विंशति (viṃśati), Hindi बीस (bīs) and Punjabi ਵੀਹ (vīh).

Numeral

بیست (bist)

  1. twenty

References

  1. ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “wīst”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press