location, spot (specific location in space, relevant in context but typically otherwise unmarked) · spot (specific location on skin or another surface, often featuring damage or a different property) · spot, part, bit (brief section of a book, movie, piece of music, etc., typically encompassing a few seconds or lines at most)
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”).
digit, number (symbol for a non-negative integer: 0, 1, ..., 9) · numeral (symbol representing a number) · number (followed by a numeral; used to indicate the position of something in a list or sequence)