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6
    Cardinal: سِتُّون (sittūn)
    Ordinal: سِتُّون (sittūn)
Root
س د س (s d s)
6 terms

Etymology

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From سِتّ (sitt, six) +‎ ـُون (-ūn)

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Numeral

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سِتُّونَ (sittūnam or f (oblique سِتِّينَ (sittīna))

  1. sixty

Declension

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Adjective

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سِتُّونَ (sittūna) (feminine سِتُّونَ (sittūna))

  1. sixtieth
    اَلصَّفْحَةُ السِّتُّونَaṣ-ṣafḥatu s-sittūnathe sixtieth page

Ottoman Turkish

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ستون

Etymology

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Borrowed from Persian ستون (sotun, column).

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Noun

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ستون (sütun)

  1. column, pillar, pilaster, post
    Synonyms: دستك (destek), دیرك (direk), عمود (ʿamud)
  2. (figurative) prop, support
  3. pole, stick of timber, mast
    Synonym: (mast) دیرك (direk)
  4. column in a newspaper or in a text

Derived terms

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  • ستونه (sütune, anything comparable to a column)

Descendants

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  • Turkish: sütun

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Persian

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Persian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (stwn'), 𐫙𐫘𐫤𐫇𐫗 (ʿstwn /⁠stūn⁠/, column, pillar), from Old Persian 𐎿𐎬𐎢𐎴𐎠 (stūnā, column, pillar), from Proto-Iranian *stuHnáH (column, pillar) (compare Avestan 𐬯𐬙𐬏𐬥𐬀 (stūna)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *stʰuHnáH (column, pillar) (compare Sanskrit स्थूणा (sthūṇā)).

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Readings
Classical reading? sutūn
Dari reading? sutūn
Iranian reading? sotun
Tajik reading? sutun

Noun

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Dari ستون
Iranian Persian
Tajik сутун

ستون (sotun) (plural ستون‌ها (sotun-hâ))

  1. column, pillar

Descendants

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References

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

Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian ستون (sutūn).

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Noun

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ستون (sutūn, satūnm (Hindi spelling सतून)

  1. pillar, support, column, prop, beam
  2. obelisk,

References

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  • ستون”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • ستون”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.