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-Aryan *śatám, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćatám, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. Cognate with Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬙𐬀 (sata), Ancient Greek ἑκατόν (hekatón), Latin centum, Old Church Slavonic съто (sŭto), Lithuanian šimtas, Tocharian A känt, Old English hundred (whence English hundred), Finnish sata (borrowing from Indo-Iranian).

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

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

1. hundred
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.48.7:

     ए॒षायु॑क्त परा॒वत॒: सूर्य॑स्यो॒दय॑ना॒दधि॑।
     श॒तं रथे॑भिः सु॒भगो॒षा इ॒यं वि या॑त्य॒भि मानु॑षान्॥

     eṣā́yukta parāváta: 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)

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