शुमार

Borrowed from Classical Persian شمار (šumār). Related to Sanskrit स्मरति (smarati). Compare Bengali শুমার (śumar), Gujarati શુમાર (śumār), Kannada ಸುಮಾರು (sumāru), Malayalam സുമാറു (sumāṟu), Marathi सुमार (sumār), Odia ସୁମାର୍ (sumār), Punjabi ਸ਼ੁਮਾਰ (śumār), Tamil சுமார் (cumār), Telugu సుమారు (sumāru).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ʃʊ.mɑːɾ/, [ʃʊ.mäːɾ]

शुमार • (śumār) f (Urdu spelling شمار)

1. counting
2. number, amount
3. regard, account, estimation

• शुमार करना (śumār karnā, “to count, reckon”)
• शुमार बाँधना (śumār bāndhnā, “to estimate”)

• बेशुमार (beśumār, “innumerable”)
• शुमारी (śumārī, “enumeration”)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “शुमार”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press