ھەزار

Central Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *hajáhram, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *saȷ́ʰásram, from Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-ǵʰéslom.

Indo-Iranian cognates include Baluchi ہزار (hazár), Persian هزار (hazâr), Pashto زر (zër), Ossetian ӕрзӕ (ærzæ), and Sanskrit सहस्र (sahásra). Akin to Old Armenian հազար (hazar), a Middle Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hazaːɾ/

Numeral

Northern Kurdish	hezar

ھەزار (hezar)

1. thousand; 1000

Derived terms

• ھەزارە (hezare)
• ھەزارپێ (hezarpê)

References

• Qazzaz, Shafiq (2000) “ھەزار”, in The Sharezoor Kurdish–English dictionary, Erbil: Aras Press and Publishers, page 582
• Wahby, T., Edmonds, C. J. (1966) “Hezar”, in A Kurdish-English Dictionary, page 66