ده

See also: دە and دہ

Egyptian Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic ذَا (ḏā).

Determiner

ده • (da) m (f دي, pl دول)

1. this

   قريت الكتاب ده

   I read this book.

Pronoun

ده • (da) m (f دي, pl دول)

1. this

   ده كتاب

   This is a book

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Persian

Etymology 1

Dari	ده
Iranian Persian
Tajik	даҳ

From Middle Persian [script needed] (dah), from Old Persian *𐎭𐎰 (*daθa), from Proto-Iranian *daśa, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *daća, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥. Compare Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬯𐬀 (dasa), Kurdish, Ossetian дӕс (dæs), Pashto لس (ləs), Sanskrit दश (daśa), Urdu دس (das), also Armenian տասը (tasə), Greek δέκα (déka), Russian десять (desjatʹ), Latin decem, English ten.

Numeral

Persian cardinal numbers

<  ۹	۱۰	۱۱  >
Cardinal : ده     Ordinal : دهم

ده • (dah)

1. ten

Related terms

• ده هزار (dah hezâr)

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian ‎𐭬𐭲𐭠 (deh, “country, land, village”), from Old Persian 𐎭𐏃𐎹𐎢 (dahạyau), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Iranian *dahyu- (“country, district, province”). Compare Old Armenian դեհ (deh), an Iranian borrowing.

Alternative forms

• دیه (dīh)

Noun

ده • (deh)

1. village

Descendants

• → Middle Armenian: դիհ (dih)

Etymology 3

Verb

ده • (deh)

Pronunciation

Dari	ده
Iranian Persian
Tajik	диҳ

1. present stem of دادن (dâdan), to give