𑀙

𑀙 (ca)

1. the seventh Brahmi consonant

• Tocharian: (cha)

𑀙

1. Brahmi script form of cha (“six”)

Optionally indeclinable.

Inherited from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀙 (*cha), 𑀱 (ṣa), from Sanskrit *𑀝𑁆𑀱𑀱𑁆 (ṭṣáṣ), 𑀱𑀱𑁆 (ṣáṣ).

𑀙 (cha) (Devanagari छ, Gujarati છ, Kannada ಛ) (attested in Ardhamāgadhī, Māhārāṣṭrī) (cardinal number)

1. six

• Central:
  • Shauraseni Prakrit:
    • Domaaki:
    • Old Gujarati: छ (cha)
      • Gujarati: છ (cha)
      • Marwari: छः (chaḥ)
    • Saurashtra: ꢱꣂ (sō)
    • Old Hindi: षट (ṣaṭa)
      • Hindustani: chah

        Hindi: छह

        Urdu: چھہ

    • Romani: śov, shov (Anglicized), šov (Pan-Vlax)
• Dardic:
  • Dameli: ṣō
  • Kalami: [script needed] (ṣuə), [script needed] (ṣɔ)
  • Indus Kohistani: [script needed] (šōh), [script needed] (ṣō)
  • Kalasha: [script needed] (ṣɔ)
  • Kashmiri:
    • Arabic script: شےٚ (śe)
    • Devanagari script: शॆ (śe)
  • Grangali: [script needed] (ṣō)
  • Phalura: ݜوۡ (ṣʷo), ݜو (ṣo), ݜوھ (ṣoʰ)
  • Savi: [script needed] (ṣōᵘ), [script needed] (ṣū)
  • Shina: ݜ (ṣa), [script needed] (ṣua)
    • Kohistani Shina: ݜوا (ṣvā)
  • Shumashti: [script needed] (ṣọo)
  • Tirahi: [script needed] (xᵘọ̈̄)
  • Torwali: [script needed] (ṣōᵘ)
  • Wotapuri-Katarqalai: [script needed] (šō)
  • Gawar-Bati: ݭو (ṣᵘō)
• Eastern:
  • Magadhi Prakrit:
    • Assamese: ছয় (soy)
    • Bihari:
      • Maithili: chaō

        Devanagari script: छओ

        Tirhuta script: 𑒕𑒍

      • Fiji Hindi: chhe
    • Bishnupriya Manipuri: ছয়
    • Bengali: ছয় (choẏ)
    • Odia: ଛଅ (chaa)
    • Rohingya: só
    • Sylheti: ꠍꠄ (sóe)
• Northern:
  • Nepali: छ (cha)
  • Western Pahari:
    • Bhadrawahi: śāh

      Arabic script: شاح

      Devanagari script: शाह

• Southern:
  • Elu Prakrit:
    • Dhivehi: ސަ (sa), ހަ (ha)
    • Sinhalese: හය (haya)
  • Maharashtri Prakrit:
    • Konkani: sa

      Devanagari script: स

      Kannada script: ಸ

      Latin script: so, sov

    • Old Marathi: sā, sāhā

      Devanagari script: सा, साहा

      Modi script: 𑘭𑘰, 𑘭𑘰𑘮𑘰

      • Marathi: सहा (sahā)
• Western:
  • Old Punjabi: ਛਿਅ (chia), ਖਟੁ (khaṭu)
    • Punjabi:

      Gurmukhi script: ਛੇ (che)

      Shahmukhi script: چھ (ch)

  • Sindhi:

    Arabic script: ڇَھَہ

    Devanagari script: छह

• → Proto-Nuristani:
  • Kamkata-viri: [script needed] (ṣū)
  • Waigali: [Term?] (ṣū)
  • Prasuni: uṣū, wuṣu

• Sheth, Hargovind Das T[rikamcand] (1923–1928) “छ”, in पाइअ-सद्द-महण्णवो [pāia-sadda-mahaṇṇavo, Ocean of Prakrit words] (in Hindi), Calcutta: [Published by the Author], page 333.
• Pischel, Richard, Jha, Subhadra (contributor) (1957) Comparative Grammar of the Prakrit Languages, Varanasi: Motilal Banarasidass, page 317
• Woolner, Alfred Cooper, An Introduction to Prakrit‎, Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1917, page 11.
• Sen, Sukumar (1960) A Comparative Grammar of Middle Indo-Aryan, Linguistic Society of India, page 134.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “ṣáṣ”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 743