sifr

Now, obviously the word sifr does not come from sunya, so what I think has happened is that somebody trying to convey the idea that the Arabs got the idea from the Indians expressed themselves poorly and one or more readers understood them to say that the word itself was borrowed, and a nugget of misinformation was born.

languagehat.com: ARABIC ETYMOLOGY. 2004

• "cipher" (English) and "chiffre" (French), derived from the Arabic word "sifr" (meaning empty or nil), describing a number written at the right of another numeral to increase its value ten times,

Khilafah.com - Building a global movement for Khilafah 2009

This word passed over into the Arabic as sifr, meaning "vacant."

languagehat.com: ARABIC ETYMOLOGY. 2004

I have elsewhere observed their dislike to Al-sifr or whistling.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

I have elsewhere observed their dislike to Al-sifr or whistling.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

(Note: The word "zephirum" evolved from the Arabic word as-sifr, which comes from the Sanskrit word, used in India as early as the fi fth century, "sunya," referring to empty.)

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