सोलह

Hindi

Hindi numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: सोलह (solah)     Ordinal: सोलहवाँ (solahvā̃)

Alternative forms

• सोला (solā) — pronunciation spelling

Etymology

Inherited from Apabhramsa सोलह (solaha), सोळह (soḷaha), from Prakrit सोळस (soḷasa), from Sanskrit षोडश (ṣóḍaśa), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *swáẓḍaśa.

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /soː.ləɦ/, [soː.lɛʱ]
• (colloquial, dialectal) (Delhi) IPA^(key): /soː.lɑː/, [soː.läː]

Numeral

सोलह • (solah) (Urdu spelling سولہ) (cardinal)

1. sixteen

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “सोलह”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Madhusudan Mishra (1992), A Grammar of Apabhraṃśa‎^[1], Vidyanidhi Prakashan, →LCCN