بیس

Cognate with Tibetan བཞེས (bzhes).^[1]

بیس (byis)

1. (honorific) to eat
2. (honorific) to drink
3. (honorific) to smoke

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀯𑀻𑀲 (vīsa), from Sanskrit विं॒श॒ति (viṃśatí).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /biːs/
• Rhymes: -iːs

بِیس • (bīs) (Hindi spelling बीस)

1. twenty

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• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بيس”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 140
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• John Shakespear (1834) “بیس”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 348
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