Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

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Etymology

Arabic çifr ‘empty', related to çafara ‘to be empty’, root of cipher ‘zero’, loan translation of Sanskrit śūnya ‘empty’, cognate with Śūnyatā ‘emptiness, void', from svi ‘swollen’, apparently not etymologically related to swell, or to Sanskrit una- ‘deficient’, cognate with void.