Where does “arab szám” come from?

arab szám (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian szám, from Hungarian száj, from Proto-Uralic śoxi — mouth.

arab szám (Hungarian): Arabic numeral

Definitions

  1. Arabic numeral

Ancestry of “arab szám”, step by step

arab szám traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hungarian szám

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianszámnumber; number, figure, numeric, data; number,...
2Hungarianszájmouth, oral
3Proto-Uralicśoximouth

via Hungarian arab

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1HungarianarabArabic; Arabian
Every word from Proto-Uralic śoxi →Every word from Hungarian száj →Every word from Hungarian szám →
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