Tajik edit

Tajik cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : ҳашт (hašt)
    Ordinal : ҳаштум (haštum)

Etymology edit

Related to Persian هشت (hašt).

From Middle Persian 𐭧𐭱𐭲 (hašt), from Old Persian [Term?], from Proto-Iranian *Haštā́, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Haštā́, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw. Compare Northern Kurdish heşt, Ossetian аст (ast), Pashto اته (atë), Avestan 𐬀𐬱𐬙𐬀 (ašta), Sanskrit अष्ट (aṣṭa) Hindi आठ (āṭh).

Numeral edit

ҳашт (hašt)

  1. eight