صِفْر

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 sıfır on the card

  zero

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

• Turkish sıfır single source

  figuratively, brand-new: sıfır araba, a new car

  Sources: Wiktionary (English edition)

• Persian صفر sefr on the card

  zero

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

• Urdu صفر sifr

  zero

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

• Indonesian sifar

  zero (rare; the usual word is nol)

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

• Malay sifar in Jawi script: صفر on the card

  zero

  Sources: Kamus Dewan, 4th edition, on the PRPM portal of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Malaysia; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Swahili sifuri on the card

  zero; brass

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

• Hausa sifiri on the card

  zero; also sifili

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

• Hausa sifiri single source

  also a volume of a book, perhaps from sifr, "book", rather than ṣifr

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