बावन
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| Cardinal: बावन (bāvan) Ordinal: बावनवाँ (bāvanvā̃) | ||
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Prakrit 𑀩𑀸𑀯𑀡 (bāvaṇa), 𑀩𑀸𑀯𑀡𑁆𑀡 (bāvaṇṇa), from Sanskrit द्वापञ्चाशत् (dvāpañcāśat).
Pronunciation
[edit]Numeral
[edit]बावन • (bāvan) (Urdu spelling باوَن) (cardinal)
- fifty-two
- बावन तोले पाव रत्ती ― bāvan tole pāv rattī ― to the last grain, absolutely precisely (literally, “fifty-two and tolās and one-fourth rattī [one ninety-sixth of a tolā]”)
- यह बात बावन तोले पाव रत्ती ठीक है।
- yah bāt bāvan tole pāv rattī ṭhīk hai.
- This is absolutely correct.
Further reading
[edit]- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “बावन”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 728
- Bahri, Hardev (1989) “बावन”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons, page 455.
- Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “बावन”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House, page 519
- “बावन”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dvāpañcāśat”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 380