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 (hazár), Central Kurdish ھەزار (hezar), Ossetian ӕрзӕ (ærzæ), and Sanskrit सहस्र (sa-hásra).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ha.ˈzaːɾ/

(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


Iranian Persian	هزار
Dari	هزار
Tajik	ҳазор

هزار • (hazâr) (plural هزارها)

thousand
(poetic) nightingale; short for (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 afġān 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)
- → Nepali: हजार (hajār)
→ Marathi: 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 (hazār). Compare Urdu ہزار (hazār).

Numeral

هزار • (hazāru)

thousand