bywl
Middle Persian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Iranian *baywā́.
Numeral edit
bywl • (bēwar)
- myriad, ten thousand
- bywl spʾh ― bēwar spāh ― an army of 20000 men
References edit
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “bēwar”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 18
- Nyberg, H. S. (1974) “bēvar”, in A Manual of Pahlavi, Part II: Glossary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 47b