هزار

See also: ہزار‎

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian hcʾl (hazār) (Manichaean Middle Persian hzʾr), from Iranian *hazahrā, from Proto-Indo-European *(sm̥-)ǵʰéslo-. Indo-Iranian cognates include Pashto زر‎ (zër), Baluchi ‎ (hazár), Kurdish ههزار‎ (hazār), Ossetian æрзæ (ærzæ), and Sanskrit सहस्र (sa-hásra). Akin to Old Armenian հազար (hazar), a Middle Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /heˈzɒːɾ/

Noun

Dari Persian	هزار‎
Iranian Persian	هزار‎
Tajiki Persian	ҳазор (hazor)

هزار • (hezâr) (plural هزارها‎ (hezâr-hâ))

thousand

Derived terms

هزارپا‎ (hezâr-pâ)
هزاردستان‎ (hezâr-dastân)
هزارآوا‎ (hezâr-âvâ)

References

MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “hazār”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 43

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