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بيست
بيست
Arabic
Verb
بِيسَتْ • (bīsat) (form I)
- third-person feminine singular past passive of بَاسَ (bāsa)
- third-person feminine singular past passive of بَاسَ (bāsa)
Persian
Etymology
From Old Persian, from Proto-Indo-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wih₁ḱm̥t, from *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti (“two-ten”). Cognates include Avestan [script needed] (vīsaiti), Kurdish bîst, Khotanese bistä, Ossetian инсӕй (insæj), Sanskrit विंशति (viṃśati), Hindi बीस (bīs), Punjabi ਵੀਹ (wīh).
Numeral
بيست (bist)
- (cardinal) twenty