köken: Inherited from Middle Persian [Term?] (/čihl/), from Proto-Iranian *čatwārHcát, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čatwārHćát, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷétwr̥dḱomt.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *kïrk (“forty”). Cognate with Azerbaijani qırx, Bashkir ҡырҡ (qırq), Karachay-Balkar къыркъ (qırq), Tatar кырык (qırıq), Turkish kırk, Turkmen kyrk, Uzbek qirq, etc.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *kïrk (“forty”). Cognate with Azerbaijani qırx, Bashkir ҡырҡ (qırq), Karachay-Balkar къыркъ (qırq), Tatar кырык (qırıq), Turkish kırk, Turkmen kyrk, Uzbek qirq, etc.
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek σαράντα (saránta), from Ancient Greek τεσσαράκοντα (tessarákonta), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwr̥̄ḱomt, from earlier *kʷetwr̥-dḱomt (“four-ten”). The first three letters were mistaken for the article τὲς (tès, “the”, feminine accusative plural) in Medieval times, hence the loss. The memorial service is derived from the belief that Jesus Christ was resurrected for…
köken: First attested as Late Old Korean 麻刃 in the Jīlín lèishì (鷄林類事 / 계림유사), 1103. In the hangul script, first attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean 마ᅀᆞᆫ〮 (Yale: màzón). The h consonant in the modern form is unexpected, possibly influenced by Middle Korean 셜흔 (syelhun, “thirty”) (modern 서른 (seoreun)).
Inherited from Old French quarante, from Late Latin quarranta, from Vulgar Latin *quadrāntā, from Latin quadrāgintā, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwr̥(d)ḱomt (“four-ten”).