Monday 11 August 2014

Devanagari numerals and their Sanskrit names

The following is an arrangement of the Indian numerals in their advanced Devanagari structure, the relating European (Persian) equivalents, their Sanskrit articulation, and interpretations in some languages.[2]

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Devanagari persian sanskrit word for the

ordinal numeral (word stem) translations in ten

languages translations in Persian

0 śūnya (शून्य) sefr/zefr (Persian language) sefr

1 eka (एक) echad (Hebrew) yek

2 dvi (द्वि) dva (Russian) do

3 tri (त्रि) three (English) se

4 chatur (चतुर्) katër (Albanian) chahar

5 panchan (पञ्चन्) pānch (Hindi) panj

6 ṣhaṣh (षष्) seis (Spanish) shesh

7 saptan (सप्तन्) şapte (Romanian) haft

8 aṣṭan (अष्टन्) astoņi (Latvian) hasht

9 navan (नवन्) nove (Italian) no

Since Sanskrit is an Indo-European dialect, the words for numerals in Greek and Latin are like those in Sanskrit (as likewise seen from the table). The expression "shunya" for zero was deciphered into Persian dialect as "سفر" "sefr"[citation needed], signifying 'n

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