bywl

Middle Persian

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *baywā́.

Numeral

bywl • (bēwar)

1. myriad, ten thousand

   bywl spʾh ― bēwar spāh ― an army of 20000 men

References

• 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