شماره

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian ʾwšmʾlk' (ōšmārag, “calculation, reckoning”). Related to شمردن (šomordan);^[1][2] see there for more.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʃu.mɑː.ɾa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃʊ.mɑː.ɾä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃʊ.mɑː.ɾä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʃʊ.mɑː.ɾä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʃu.mɔː.ɾä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃo.mɒː.ɹe]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃu.mɔ.ɾä]

Readings
Classical reading?	šumāra
Dari reading?	šumāra
Iranian reading?	šomâre
Tajik reading?	šumora

Noun

شماره • (šomâre) (plural شماره‌ها (šomâre-hâ))

Dari	شماره
Iranian Persian
Tajik	шумора

1. number (in a mathematical sense), digit

   شُمارِهٔ تِلِفُن شُما را نِمی‌فُروشیم.

   šomâre-ye telefon šomâ râ nemi-forušim.

   We do not sell your phone number.

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: şümarə
• → Gujarati: સુમારે (sumāre)
• → Kannada: ಸುಮಾರು (sumāru)
• → Marathi: सुमारे (sumāre)

See also

• تعداد (te'dâd, “number, quantity”)

References

1. MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “ōšmārag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 62
2. Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 137