یکم

Persian

Etymology

From یک‎ (yek, “one”) + م‎ (-om, “-th, -st (ordinal number suffix)”).

Adjective

یکم • (yekom)

  1. (rare or archaic) first
  2. (in compounds) first
    ‏بیست و یکم‎ ― bist o yekom ― twenty-first

Usage notes

اول‎ (avval) is the standard word for "first" in modern Persian. Compound numbers, however, are always formed with یکم‎ (yekom).

Synonyms
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