شش

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See also: سس

Baluchi

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *šwáš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *šwáćš, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs.

Numeral

شش (šaš)

  1. six

Noun

شش (šaš)

  1. six (digit)

Brahui

Brahui numbers (edit)
 ←  5 6 7  → 
    Cardinal: شش

Etymology

Borrowed from Baluchi شش (šaš).

Pronunciation

Numeral

شش (šaš)

  1. six, 6

Mazanderani

Numeral

شش (šeš)

  1. six

Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian (šaš), from Proto-Iranian *šwáš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *šwáćš, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. Compare Northern Kurdish şeş, Avestan 𐬑𐬴𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬱 (xṣ̌uuaš), Khotanese kṣäṣa̮ (six), Sanskrit षष् (ṣáṣ), Hindi छह (chah), Spanish seis, German sechs, Lithuanian šeši, Russian шесть (šestʹ), Armenian վեց (vecʻ), Greek έξι (éxi).

Alternative forms

Dari شش
Iranian Persian
Tajik шаш

Pronunciation

Persian numbers (edit)
60
 ←  5 ۶
6
7  → 
    Cardinal: شش (šeš)
    Ordinal: ششم (šešom)

Readings
Classical reading? šaš
Dari reading? šaš
Iranian reading? šeš
Tajik reading? šaš

Numeral

شش (šeš) (Persian numeral ۶)

  1. six
Descendants
  • Azerbaijani: şeş

References

  1. ^ Ela Filippone (2011) “The Language of the Qorʾān-e Qods and its Sistanic Dialectal Background”, in M. Maggi, P. Orsatti, editors, The Persian Language in History, Wiesbaden: Reichert, pages 179-235:
    Though mostly limited to a more or less small group of words also recorded in current Persian dictionaries (e.g. gardešt ‘walk’, bālešt ‘cushion’), the diffusion of št-deverbatives (or nominal derivatives) is much larger than generally admitted. Today we find a few in usage in Tehrāni and in Modern Spoken Persian, but they are more consistently documented in the eastern areas of the Iranian plateau: e.g. in Sistān, particularly in the dialect of Saraxs, where one even finds an unetymological final ‑t in the numeral šәšt ‘six’.

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian (swš /⁠suš⁠/, lung). Cognate with Avestan 𐬯𐬎𐬱 (suš, lung), Pashto سږى (sëģay),Southern Kurdish سۊە (süe /⁠süa⁠/), Northern Kurdish sîh (/⁠sīh⁠/), Gurani سِسی (sisî /⁠sisī⁠/) and Ossetian сос (sos, hollowed; lung).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? šuš
Dari reading? šuš
Iranian reading? šoš
Tajik reading? šuš

Noun

شش (šoš) (plural شش‌ها (šoš-hâ))

Dari شش
Iranian Persian
Tajik шуш
  1. lung
    Synonym: ریه (riye)

References

  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “¹suš”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 78