köken: Borrowed from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “empty”) and, subsequently 'zero'; cifra is the Latin form which came to Europe via Andalusian Arabic in late 14th century. Cognate with English cipher.
place (numeric: the column counting a certain quantity) · digit (numeral)
çekim: çoğul algarismos
köken: Borrowed from Medieval Latin algorismus, a transliteration of the Arabic form of the name of the Persian mathematician al-Khwārizmī. Doublet of algoritmo. Cognate with Spanish guarismo.
O mundo globalizado utiliza predominantemente os dez algarismos indo-arábicos.
a single digit · a figure, a numeral, a number, an estimate
çekim: çoğul siffror · tamlayan siffras
köken: According to SAOB online: via Middle Low German sīfer, sīfere from Old French cifre, from... According to Svensk etymologisk ordbok: via late Old High German cifre from Old French cifre, from... ... Medieval Latin cifra, from Arabic صِفْر (“zero, empty, nothing”), calqued from Sanskrit शून्य (śūnya), formed from Proto-Indo-European *ḱówH-. NEO and SO claim direct derivation from Latin. Related…
figure, digit · number (abstract entity used to describe quantity)
çekim: çoğul cyfry · tamlayan cyfry
eş: cyfra arabska
köken: Etymology tree Sanskrit शू॒न्य (śūnyá)sl. Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr)bor. Medieval Latin cifralbor. Polish cyfra Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin cifra. Doublet of szyfr (“cipher”) and zero (“zero”).
number (abstract entity used to describe quantity; in mathematics, a concept such as a natural number, rational number or real number) · number, count, quantity (a number indicating how many of something there are) · head count (the act of counting the number of persons present by having them call out numbers starting with one; also an interjection ordering a group to do so)
çekim: çoğul luvut · tamlayan luvun
köken: From Proto-Finnic *luku. Equivalent to lukea (“to read, count”) + -u. The grammatical and mathematical senses are from the 19th century.
aile: lukuinen, lukuisa, luvullinen, luvuton, lukuset, ottaa luku, ottaa lukua, aaltoluku, ajanluku, ajatustenluku
köken: Inherited from Old Czech cifra, borrowed from German Ziffer, from Medieval Latin cifra (“numeral; zero symbol”), from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “zero”).
numeral (a symbol that is not a word and represents a number) · number; amount · cipher (a method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning)
çekim: çoğul xifres
köken: Borrowed from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “empty”). First attested in the 14th century.