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Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian (hcʾl /hazār/) (Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫍𐫉𐫀𐫡 (hzʾr)), from Proto-Iranian *hajáhram, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *saȷ́ʰásram, from Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-ǵʰéslom.
Indo-Iranian cognates include Pashto زر (zër), Baluchi ہزار (hazár), Central Kurdish ھەزار (hezar), Ossetian ӕрзӕ (ærzæ), and Sanskrit सहस्र (sa-hásra).
Pronunciation
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| Classical reading?
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hazār
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| Dari reading?
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hazār
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| Iranian reading?
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hazâr, hezâr
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| Tajik reading?
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hazor
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Noun
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هزار
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| Iranian Persian
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| Tajik
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ҳазор
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هزار • (hazâr) (plural هزارها (hazâr-hâ))
- thousand
- (poetic) nightingale; short for هزاردستان (hazârdastân).
c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 89:گر عاشقی بپیشت افغان کند عجب نیست
هر جا گلیست باشد هم ناله هزاری- gar āšiqī ba-pēšat afğān kunad ajab nēst
har jā gulē-st bāšad ham nāla-yi hazārē - If a lover wails before you, it is nothing strange;
Wherever there is a rose, there is also the lament of a nightingale.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “hazār”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 43
Sindhi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian هزار (hazār). Compare Urdu ہزار (hazār).
Numeral
هزار • (hazāru)
- thousand