بیست

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See also: بيست and بئست

Baluchi

Numeral

بیست • (bíst)

  1. twenty

See also

Central Kurdish

Central Kurdish cardinal numbers
 <  ۱۹ ۲۰ ۲۱  > 
    Cardinal : بیست (bîst)
    Ordinal : بیستەم (bîstem)
    Ordinal II : بیستەمین (bîstemîn)

Etymology

Compare Persian بیست (bist).

Pronunciation

Numeral

بیست (bîst)

  1. twenty; 20

Persian

Persian numbers (edit)
200
 ←  10 [a], [b] ←  19 ۲۰
20 		21  →  30  → 
2
    Cardinal: بیست (bist)
    Ordinal: بیستم (bistom)
Dari بیست
Iranian Persian
Tajik бист

Etymology

From Middle Persian (wyst' /⁠wīst⁠/) (Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫇𐫏𐫘𐫤 (wyst /⁠wīst⁠/) ) Old Persian 𐎻𐎡𐎰𐎫 (vi-i-θ-t /⁠*wīθati⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *HwiHcati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HwiHćati from Proto-Indo-European *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti (“two-ten”).

Cognates include Avestan 𐬬𐬍𐬯𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (vīsaiti), Northern Kurdish bîst, Khotanese (bistä), Ossetian инсӕй (insæj), Sanskrit विंशति (viṃśati) (whence Urdu بیس (bīs) and Punjabi وِیہہ (vīh) / ਵੀਹ (vīh)).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? bīst
Dari reading? bīst
Iranian reading? bist
Tajik reading? bist
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Numeral

بیست • (bist) (Persian numeral ۲۰)

  1. twenty

References

  1. ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “wīst”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
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