sunya

Since the earliest form of the Hindu symbol was commonly used in inscriptions and manuscripts in order to mark a blank, it was called sunya, meaning "void" or "empty."

languagehat.com: ARABIC ETYMOLOGY. 2004

Robina explained that emptiness, which is derived from the Sanskrit word sunyata where sunya literally means zero or nothing, does not imply Nihilism -- that nothing matters -- but in fact, quite the opposite.

Bhagwan Chowdhry: Buddhist Emptiness For Scientists, Engineers And Mathematicians Bhagwan Chowdhry 2011

Robina explained that emptiness, which is derived from the Sanskrit word sunyata where sunya literally means zero or nothing, does not imply Nihilism -- that nothing matters -- but in fact, quite the opposite.

Bhagwan Chowdhry: Buddhist Emptiness For Scientists, Engineers And Mathematicians Bhagwan Chowdhry 2011

In a recent study of numbers, I came acros the oft repeated statement that the Arabic SIFR 'comes from' Sanskrit 'sunya' "void".

languagehat.com: ARABIC ETYMOLOGY. 2004

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

As for the spoken word: the original Indian term for the little circle as place holder was sunya (“empty”).

NUMBER CHRISTOPH J. SCRIBA 1968

(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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His doctrine that all phenomena are empty (sunya) of such existence promises to end the fret of our chafing against the chain of time.

Joseph S. O'Leary homepage 2009