चतुर्विंशति

Compound of चतुर् (cátur) +‎ विंशति (viṃśatí).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɐ́.tuɾ.ʋĩ.ɕɐ.ti/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɐ.t̪uɾ.ʋĩ.ɕɐ.t̪i/

चतुर्विंशति • (cáturviṃśati) f

1. twenty-four
   • c. 1200 BCE – 800 BCE, Kṛṣṇa-Yajurveda (Taittirīya Saṃhitā) VI.8:

     चतुर्विꣳशतिम् अन्व् आह चतुर्विꣳशतिर् अर्धमासाः संवत्सरः

     caturviṃśatim anv āha caturviṃśatir ardhamāsāḥ saṃvatsaraḥ

     Twenty-four (verses) he recites; (and) the year has twenty-four half-months.

• Dardic:
  • Kashmiri: ژۆوُہ (ċovuh)
• Pali: catuvīsati
• Prakrit: 𑀘𑀉𑀯𑀻𑀲𑀇 (caüvīsaï), 𑀘𑀉𑀯𑀻𑀲 (caüvīsa), 𑀘𑁅𑀯𑁆𑀯𑀻𑀲 (cauvvīsa)
  • Central:
    • Ardhamagadhi Prakrit:
      • Awadhi: चौबिस (caubis)
    • Sauraseni Prakrit:
      • Hindustani: caubīs
        • Hindi: चौबीस
        • Urdu: چَوبِیس (caubīs)
  • Eastern:
    • Magadhi Prakrit:
      • Assamese: চৌবিশ (soubix)
      • Bengali: চব্বিশ (cobbiś)
      • Odia: ଚବିଶ (cabiśa)
  • Northern:
    • Khasa Prakrit:
      • Central Pahari:
        • Garhwali: चोबिस (cobis)
      • Eastern Pahari:
        • Nepali: चौबिस (caubis)
      • Western Pahari:
        • Bhadrawahi: (ċöbbi)
  • Northwestern:
    • Paisaci Prakrit:
      • Takka Apabhramsa:
        • Lahnda: (côvī), چوی (cavvī)
        • Punjabi: cauvī

          Gurmukhi script: ਚੌਵੀ

          Shahmukhi script: چَووِی

      • Vracada Apabhramsa:
        • Sindhi: covīh

          Arabic script: چووِيه

          Devanagari script: चोवीह

          • Jadgali: (caubi)
  • Southern:
    • Helu Prakrit:
      • Sinhalese: සූවිස්ස (sūwissa)
    • Maharastri Prakrit:
      • Marathi: चव्वीस (ċavvīs), चोवीस (ċovīs)
  • Western:
    • Sauraseni Prakrit:
      • Gujarati: ચોવીસ (covīs)
  • → Dhivehi: ސައުވީސް (sauvīs)

• Monier Williams (1899) “चतुर्विंशति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 385, column 1.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “cáturviṁśati”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 250
• Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2025) “caturviṃśati”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.