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

Persian

Etymology 1
Dari Persian ده
Iranian Persian ده
Tajiki Persian даҳ (dah)

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 deh, 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.[1]

Numeral
Persian cardinal numbers
 <  ۹‎ ۱۰ ۱۱  > ‎
    Cardinal : ده
    Ordinal : دهم‎

ده • (dah)

  1. ten
  • ده هزار‎ (dah hezâr)

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

Noun

ده • (deh)

  1. village

Etymology 3

Verb

ده • (deh)

Pronunciation
Dari Persian ده
Iranian Persian ده
Tajiki Persian диҳ (dih)
  1. present stem of دادن‎ (dâdan), to give

References
  1. Benjamin W. Fortson IV (2010), “Indo-Iranian I: Indic”, in Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction, 2nd edition, page 203
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