هزار

See also: ہزار

Persian

Persian numbers ^(edit)

[a], [b] ←  100	←  900	۱۰۰۰ 1,000	10,000  → [a], [b]	1,000,000 (106)  → [a], [b]
		100[a], [b]
Cardinal: هزار (hazâr)

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (hcʾl /⁠hazār⁠/) (Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫍𐫉𐫀𐫡 (hzʾr)), from Proto-Iranian *hajáhram, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *saȷ́ʰásram, from Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-ǵʰéslom.

Indo-Iranian cognates include Pashto زر (zër), Baluchi ہزار (hazár), Central Kurdish ھەزار (hezar), Ossetian ӕрзӕ (ærzæ), and Sanskrit सहस्र (sa-hásra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ha.ˈzɑːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.zɑ́ːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.zɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔä.zɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔä.zɔ́ːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [hæ.zɒ́ːɹ], [hezɒ́ːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.zɔ́ɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	hazār
Dari reading?	hazār
Iranian reading?	hazâr, hezâr
Tajik reading?	hazor

Noun

Dari	هزار
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ҳазор

هزار • (hazâr) (plural هزارها (hazâr-hâ))

1. thousand
2. (poetic) nightingale; short for هزاردستان (hazârdastân).
   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 89:

     گر عاشقی بپیشت افغان کند عجب نیست
     هر جا گلیست باشد هم ناله هزاری

     gar āšiqī ba-pēšat afğān kunad ajab nēst
     har jā gulē-st bāšad ham nāla-yi hazārē

     If a lover wails before you, it is nothing strange;
     Wherever there is a rose, there is also the lament of a nightingale.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

• هزارآوا (hazâr-âvâ)
• هزاردستان (hazârdastân)
• هزاره (hezâre)
• هزارپا (hazârpâ)

 

Descendants

• → Assamese: হাজাৰ (hazar)
• → Avar: азарго (azargo)
• → Bengali: হাজার (hajar)
• → Chechen: эзар (ezar)
• → Gujarati: હજાર (hajār)
• → Ingush: эзар (ezar)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: हज़ार (hazār)

  Urdu: ہزار (hazār)

• → Marathi: हजार (hajār)
• → Nepali: हजार (hajār)
• → Punjabi: ਹਜ਼ਾਰ (hazār), ਹਜਾਰ (hajār) / ہزار (hazār)
• → Rohingya: házar, ázar
• → Santali: ᱦᱟᱡᱟᱨ (hajar)
• → Sindhi: هزار (hazāru)
• → Yagnobi: ҳазор (hazor)

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “hazār”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 43

Sindhi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian هزار (hazār). Compare Urdu ہزار (hazār).

Numeral

هزار • (hazāru)

1. thousand