शत

Borrowed from Sanskrit शत (śata). Doublet of सौ (sau) and सद (sad).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ʃət̪/,

शत • (śat) (cardinal)

1. (literary) hundred

   Synonyms: सौ (sau), (poetic) सद (sad)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “शत”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćatám, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. Cognate with Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬙𐬀 (sata), Ancient Greek ἑκατόν (hekatón), Latin centum, Tocharian A känt, English hund-red.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɕɐ.tɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɕɐ.t̪ɐ/

शत • (śatá) n, rarely m, at the end of a compound f(ī)

1. hundred
   • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.48.7:

     ए॒षायु॑क्त परा॒वतः॒ सूर्य॑स्यो॒दय॑ना॒दधि॑।
     श॒तं रथे॑भिः सु॒भगो॒षा इ॒यं वि या॑त्य॒भि मानु॑षान्॥

     eṣā́yukta parāvátaḥ sū́ryasyodáyanādádhi.
     śatáṃ ráthebhiḥ subhágoṣā́ iyáṃ ví yātyabhí mā́nuṣān.

     This auspicious Uṣas has harnessed (her vehicles) from afar, above the rising of the sun; and she comes gloriously upon man, with a hundred chariots.

2. any very large number

• Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀲𑀢 (sata)
  • Ardhamagadhi Prakrit: 𑀲𑀬 (saya)
  • Helu Prakrit: 𑀲𑀢 (sata), *𑀲𑀬 (*saya)
    • Dhivehi: ހިއަ (hia) (dialectal, archaic)
    • Sinhalese: සිය (siya)
  • Magadhi Prakrit: 𑀰𑀤 (śada)
    • Assamese: শ (xo)
    • Bengali: শ (śo)
    • Bhojpuri: सौ (sau)
    • Odia: ଶହ (śaha)
  • Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀲𑀅 (saa)
    • Konkani:

      Devanagari script: -शे (-śe)

      Kannada script: -ಶೆ (-śe)

      Latin script: -xem

    • Old Marathi:

      Devanagari script: श्ये (śye), सें (seṃ)

      Modi script: 𑘫𑘿𑘧𑘹 (śye), 𑘭𑘹𑘽 (seṃ)

      • Marathi: -शे (-śe)
  • Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀲𑀤 (sada)
    • Old Gujarati: सउ (saü)
      • Gujarati: સો (so)
    • Hindustani:

      Hindi: सौ (sau)

      Urdu: سو (sau)

    • Nepali: सय (saya)
    • Punjabi:

      Gurmukhi script: ਸੌ (sau)

      Shahmukhi script: سَو (sau)

    • Romani: śel, šel (Pan-Vlax), shel, șăl
    • Sindhi:

      Arabic script: سؤ

      Devanagari script: सउ

• Dardic:
  • Kashmiri: ہَتھ (hath)
  • Shina: شل (śal)
• → Old Javanese: śata
  • Javanese: ꦱꦠ (sata)
  • → Balinese: ᬰᬢ (sata)
• Pali: sata
• → Bengali: শত (śot)
  • → Rohingya: cót
• → Hindi: शत (śat)
• → Telugu: శతము (śatamu) (learned)
• →⇒ Dhivehi: ސަތޭކަ (satēka)
• → Thai: ศต (sòt)

• Monier Williams (1899) “शत”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1048.