باون

See also: پاؤں

Urdu

Urdu numbers ^(edit)

[a], [b] ←  51	۵۲ 52	53  →
Cardinal: باوَن (bāvan)     Ordinal: باوَنْواں (bāvanvā̃)

Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀩𑀸𑀯𑀡 (bāvaṇa), 𑀩𑀸𑀯𑀡𑁆𑀡 (bāvaṇṇa), from Sanskrit द्वापञ्चाशत् (dvāpañcāśat).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bɑː.ʋən/

Numeral

باوَن • (bāvan) (Hindi spelling बावन) (cardinal number)

1. fifty-two

   باوَن تولے پاؤ رَتِّی ― bāvan tole pāo rattī ― to the last grain, absolutely precisely (literally, “fifty-two and tolās and one-fourth rattī [one ninety-sixth of a tolā]”)

Further reading

• “باون”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “باون”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 98
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dvāpañcāśat”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 380