Tsah-EAR צעיר _ [TS-R à ZR] ROOTS: European ZERO is said to have spread via Arabic. It is thought that Arabic sifr (cipher) is the source. For CIPHER see ספר $aFaR (to count) at the “DECIPHER” entry.
צערTSa[A]hR means “was small, of little importance” in Aramaic and Hebrew. In Judges 6:15 reluctant hero Gideon calls himself the "least" in his family, the צעיר TS[A]heeYR (the zero).
Arabic saghura means “was small.” Arabic does have the word, but it was not used for sifr (ZERO). צעיר TS[A]heeYR is young or small -- Genesis 29:26.
BRANCHES: ZERO is widely borrowed (Basque, French, Italian, Japanese,Latin and Portuguese, with simple variations like Galician and Spanish cero, and more exotic variants like Armenian զրո zro. The Korean ZERO is particularly tasteful: 제로 jelo .
But variations of NULL are twice as popular as ZERO, and these are not from Arabic. Languages that DO use Arabic sifr (zero) include Azerbaijani and Turkish sifir, and Swahili sifuri.
The dictionaries are theoretically right that numbers should have spread through Arabic. But, for example, Hindi शून्य Śūn'ya is from שום SHOOM (nothing).
Perhaps more fanatic than secular linguists, Arabic linguists would never accept that Arabic is from a primeval Semitic from Eden which is best preserved by Zionists.
Atom, the smallest particle, is zarre in Persian/Farsi. In Iran they know the atom. But even in Moslem Iran many words look more Edenic than Arabic. -------------------
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