शतक

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit शतक (śataka).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ʃə.t̪ək/, [ʃɐ.t̪ɐk]

Noun

शतक • (śatak) m

1. century, group of 100
2. (cricket) a century

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “शतक”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

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Sanskrit

Noun

शतक • (śataka) stem, n

1. a hundred, a century (especially in titles of works ‘a cento’ or ‘a collection of 100 stanzas’)

Descendants

• Telugu: శతకము (śatakamu)