بيست

See also: بئست‎ and بیست‎

Arabic

Verb

بِيسَتْ • (bīsat) (form I)

  1. third-person feminine singular past passive of بَاسَ‎ (bāsa)
  2. third-person feminine singular past passive of بَاسَ‎ (bāsa)

Persian
Dari Persian بيست‎
Iranian Persian بيست‎
Tajiki Persian бист (bist)

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (wyst' /wīst/) (Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫇𐫏𐫘𐫤‎ (wyst /wīst/) ) [1] Old Persian 𐎻𐎡𐎰𐎫 (vi-i-θ-t /*wīθati/), from Proto-Iranian *HwiHćati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HwiHćati from Proto-Indo-European *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti (“two-ten”). Cognates include Avestan 𐬬𐬍𐬯𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌‎ (vīsaiti), Kurdish bîst, Khotanese [script needed] (bistä), Ossetian инсӕй (insæj), Sanskrit विंशति (viṃśati), Hindi बीस (bīs) and Punjabi ਵੀਹ (vīh).

Numeral

بيست • (bist)

  1. twenty

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