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From Proto-Basque *ezer, composed of *e- (indefinite prefix) +‎ *zer (“what”).[1]

• IPA(key): /es̻er/ [e.s̻er]

• IPA(key): (most dialects) /es̻er/ [e.s̻er]

• IPA(key): (Biscayan) /es̺er/ [e.s̺er]

• Rhymes: -es̻er, -er

• Rhymes: -es̻er, -er

• Rhymes: -es̺er, -er

• Hyphenation: e‧zer

ezer

1. anything, nothing (in negative contexts)
   Ez dut ezer ikusi. ― I didn't see anything.
   Ezer nahi baduzu, esan. ― If you want anything, tell me.
   Ez du ezerk pozten. ― Nothing makes him happy.

This word is a negative polarity item, occurring in contexts such as negative sentences, questions, and conditional clauses. The only positive statements in which it corresponds to "anything" are mostly conditionals and questions.

• ezer askorik (“not much”)
• ezer ere (“nothing at all”)
• ezer ez (“nothing at all”)
• ezer gutxi (“almost nothing”)
• ezerez
• ezerezean gelditu
• ezerezean geratu
• ezerezean utzi
• ezerezetik atera
• ezerezkeria
• ezereztasun
• ezergatik
• ezertarako ez izan (“to be useless”)
• ezertariko
• ezertxo
• ezertxo ere

1. ^ R. L. Trask (2008), “zer”, in Max W. Wheeler, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Basque, University of Sussex, page 370

• “ezer”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “ezer”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Hungarian numbers (edit)

| | 10,000 | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | ----- | ---------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- | | ← 100 | ← 900 | 1,000 | 1,100 → | 2,000 → | | | 100 | | | | | | Cardinal: ezer Nominal: ezres Ordinal: ezredik A.o.: ezredszer, ezredjére Adverbial: ezerszer Multiplier: ezerszeres Distributive: ezr(es)ével, ezrenként Fractional: ezred Number of people: ezren | | | | |

From Iranian, more specifically possibly from Alanic *ærzæ. Compare Ossetian ӕрзӕ́ (ærzǽ), Persian هزار (hezâr). The Iranian word is from Proto-Indo-Iranian *saȷ́ʰásram, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslom.[1]The Permic languages have also borrowed this numeral from Indo-Iranian, compare Komi-Zyryan сюрс (śurs) and Udmurt сюрс (śurs).

• IPA(key): [ˈɛzɛr]
• Hyphenation: ezer
• Rhymes: -ɛr

ezer (plural ezrek)

1. thousand
   Synonym: egyezer

• ezernyi

• ezerszer

• ezred

• ezredes

• ezredik

• ezrelék

• ezres

• egyezer

• ezeregyszáz

• kétezer

• ötezer

• nyolcezer

• tízezer

• húszezer

• százezer

• ezeréves

• ezerszög

(Non-institutionalized adjectival compounds with single-element numerals [excerpt]):
ezermilliós, ezermilliárdos, ezerbilliós; ezerméteres, ezerkilós, ezergrammos, ezertonnás, ezerliteres; ezerwattos, ezeramperes; ezernapi, ezernapos, ezerhetes, ezerheti, ezeréves, ezerévi; ezeróránként, ezernaponta, ezernaponként, ezerévente, ezerévenként; ezerfokos, ezerfokú, ezerirányú, ezeroldalas, ezeroldalú, ezerkötetes, ezerdimenziós, ezerszázalékos, ezerkerekű, ezerfős, ezerfőnyi, ezernyelvű, ezertagú, ezerelemű, ezerrészes, ezeremeletes, ezerrétegű, ezerszintes, ezerablakos, ezerajtós, ezerüléses, ezerjegyű, ezerpontos, ezerszavas, ezerbetűs, ezersoros; ezerforintos, ezerdolláros, ezereurós; ezerlábú, ezerágú, ezerfejű, ezerkezű, ezerkarú, ezerszemű, ezerfülű, ezerlevelű.

• → Kajkavian Serbo-Croatian: jezero (“thousand”)[2]
• → Pannonian Rusyn: (colloquial) езер (ezer)

1. ^ ezer in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
2. ^ ezer in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2025.

• ezer in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• ezer in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2026).