حِساب

The word in other languages

Each form in its own language's script, with its sources. Anything marked "single source" has only one source we could find, so it is shown on this page only, not on the card.

• Turkish hesap on the card

  calculation; a bill; a bank account

  Sources: Nişanyan, Turkish etymological dictionary (via etimolojiturkce.com); Wiktionary (English edition)

• Persian حساب hesâb

  reckoning; arithmetic

  Sources: Steingass, A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary (1892), University of Chicago edition; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Urdu حساب hisāb on the card

  reckoning; an account, a bill

  Sources: Platts, A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi and English (1884), University of Chicago edition; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Indonesian hisab on the card

  calculation; estimate

  Sources: KBBI, the official Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Malay hisab single source

  reckoning; the reckoning of deeds on the Day of Judgement

  Sources: Kamus Dewan, 4th edition, on the PRPM portal of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Malaysia

• Swahili hesabu on the card

  arithmetic; counting

  Sources: Madan, Swahili-English Dictionary (Oxford, 1903); Rechenbach, Swahili-English Dictionary (Catholic University of America, 1967); Wiktionary (English edition)

• Hausa lissafi on the card

  reckoning; any arithmetic operation

  Sources: Bargery, A Hausa-English Dictionary (1934), online edition; Robinson, Dictionary of the Hausa Language (Cambridge, 1913); Wiktionary (English edition)

• Hausa lissafi single source

  also good sense, intelligence

  Sources: Bargery, A Hausa-English Dictionary (1934), online edition

• Hausa hisabi

  mathematics and calendar-reckoning, the form closer to the Arabic

  Sources: Bargery, A Hausa-English Dictionary (1934), online edition; Wiktionary (English edition)