سكسان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic, equivalent to سكز (sekiz, “eight”) +‎ اون (on, “ten”).

Numeral

سكسان • (seksan)

1. eighty

   Synonyms: (Persian) هشتاد (heştad), (Arabic) ثمانون (semanun)

Descendants

• Turkish: seksen
• → Armenian: սէքսէն (sēkʻsēn)

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “seksen”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سكسان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1067