पञ्चाशत्

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *penkʷēḱomt, from earlier *pénkʷe(d)ḱomt (“five-ten”). Cognates include Ancient Greek πεντήκοντα (pentḗkonta) and Latin quīnquāgintā.

Numeral

पञ्चाशत् • (pañcāśát)

  1. fifty

References

  • Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0578
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