آٹھ

See also: اته, أته, and ابه

Urdu

Urdu numbers (edit)
80
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8
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    Cardinal: آٹھ (āṭh)
    Ordinal: آٹھواں (āṭhvā̃), ہَشْتُم (haśtum)

Etymology

    Inherited from Old Hindi अठ (aṭha) (with the vowel lengthened possibly under influence of other regional forms), from Apabhramsa अट्ठ (aṭṭha), from Prakrit 𑀅𑀝𑁆𑀞 (aṭṭha), from Sanskrit अष्ट (aṣṭa).

    Pronunciation

    Numeral

    آٹھ • (āṭh) (Hindi spelling आठ)

    1. eight

    Further reading

    • S. W. Fallon (1879) “آٹھ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 30
    • Platts, John T. (1884) “آٹھ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 20
    • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “آٹھ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 5
    • آٹھ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
    • John Shakespear (1834) “آٹھ”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 34
    • آٹھ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.