بیست

See also: بيست‎ and بئست‎

Baluchi

Numeral

بیست • (bíst)

  1. twenty

See also

Central Kurdish
Central Kurdish cardinal numbers
 <  ۱۹‎ ۲۰ ۲۱  > ‎
    Cardinal : بیست (bîst)
    Ordinal : بیستەم‎ (bîstem)
    Ordinal II : بیستەمین‎ (bîstemîn)

Etymology

Compare Persian بیست‎ (bist).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /biːst/

Numeral

بیست (bîst)

  1. twenty; 20

Persian
Persian numbers (edit)
200
 ←  10  ←  19 ۲۰
20		 21  →  30  → 
2
    Cardinal: بیست (bist)
    Ordinal: بیستم‎ (bistom)
Dari بیست
Iranian Persian
Tajik 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 *HwiHcati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HwiHćati from Proto-Indo-European *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti (“two-ten”).

Cognates include Avestan 𐬬𐬍𐬯𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌‎ (vīsaiti), Northern Kurdish bîst, Khotanese [script needed] (bistä), Ossetian инсӕй (insæj), Sanskrit विंशति (viṃśati) (whence Urdu بیس‎ (bīs) and Punjabi وِیہہ‎ (viyh) / ਵੀਹ (vīh)).

Pronunciation
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Numeral

بیست • (bist) (Persian numeral ۲۰‎)

  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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