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Tajik
- -юм (-yum) — after vowels
Etymology
Inherited from Classical Persian ـُم (-um).
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ум • (-um) (Persian spelling ـم)
- used to form ordinal numbers: -th
- панҷум ― panjum ― fifth
- бисту якум ― bistu yakum ― twenty first
- used to create the denominator of fractions: -th
- як шашуми мева ― yak šašum-i meva ― a sixth of the fruit
Derived terms