From earlier *sárHwas, from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂-wós, from *solh₂- (“whole”).
*sárwas
- all
- entire, whole
- Proto-Iranian: *hárwa-wícwah
- Khotanese: [script needed] (harbiśśa)
- Avestan: 𐬵𐬀𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬀. 𐬬𐬍𐬯𐬞𐬀 (hauruua. vīspa)
- → Middle Persian: (/harwisp/, “all, every; everyone”)
- Manichaean script: 𐫍𐫡𐫇𐫏𐫘𐫛 (hrwysp)
- Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (KRAwsp), [Book Pahlavi needed] (hlwsp'), [Book Pahlavi needed] (hlwst')
- Psalter Pahlavi script: 𐮉𐮅𐮀𐮅𐮍𐮎𐮈 (KRAwspy)
- Classical Persian: هروسف (harwisf) (only in Zoroastrian texts)
- Proto-Indo-Aryan: *sárwas
- Sanskrit: सर्व (sárva)
- Ardhamagadhi Prakrit: 𑀲𑀯𑁆𑀯 (savva)
- Dardic:
- Grangali: [script needed] (ṣōka)
- Kalami: [script needed] (sō), [script needed] (sūo)
- Khowar: سف (saf)
- Shumashti: [script needed] (šauke)
- Torwali: سوو (sōw)
- Helu Prakrit:
- Sinhalese: සව (sawa), හව (hawa)
- Kholosi: sāf
- Magadhi Prakrit: 𑀲𑀯𑁆𑀯 (savva)
- Assamese: সব (xobo)
- Bengali: সব্ব (śobbo), সব (śobo), সপ (śop)
- Bihari:
- Bhojpuri: सभ (sabh)
- Maithili: सब (sab), सभ (sabh)
- Odia: ସବୋ (sabo)
- Pali: sabba
- Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀲𑀯𑁆𑀯 (savva)
- Garhwali: सब (sab)
- Hindustani:
- Hindi: सब (sab)
- Urdu: سب (sab)
- Kumaoni: सब (sab)
- Nepali: सब (sab)
- Old Gujarati: सव (sava)
- Gujarati: સહુ (sahu), સૌ (sau), સવ (sav)
- Punjabi: ਸਭ (sabh)
- Romani: savoro, saro
- Sindhi: सभु (sabhu)
- → Old Javanese: sarwa
- Proto-Iranian: *hárwah
- Central Iranian:
- Avestan: 𐬵𐬀𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬀 (hauruua, “whole, each”)
- Southeastern Iranian:
- Northwestern Iranian:
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: هەر (har)
- Northern Kurdish: her (har)
- Southern Kurdish: هەر (har)
- Laki: هەر (har)
- Proto-Medo-Parthian:
- Caspian
- Gilaki: هر (har), ار (ar)
- Mazanderani: هر (har)
- Parthian: (/harw/)
- Inscriptional Parthian script: 𐭊𐭓𐭀 (KRA)
- Manichaean script: 𐫍𐫡𐫇 (hrw)
- Zaza-Gurani:
- Gurani: گِر (gir)
- Zazaki: hırg (hirg)
- Southwestern Iranian:
- Old Persian: 𐏃𐎽𐎺 (h-ru-v /haruva/)
- Middle Persian: (/harw/)
- Manichaean script: 𐫍𐫡𐫇 (hrw)
- Inscriptional Pahlavi script: 𐭪𐭥𐭠 (KRA)
- Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (KRA), [Book Pahlavi needed] (hl)
- Psalter Pahlavi script: 𐮉𐮅𐮀 (KRA)
- Pazend script: 𐬵𐬀𐬭 (har)
- Persian: هر (har, “each”)
- → Azerbaijani: hər / هر
- → Bashkir: һәр (hər)
- → Gujarati: હર (har)
- → Hindustani:
- Hindi: हर (har)
- Urdu: ہر (har)
- → Kazakh: әр (är)
- → Kyrgyz: ар (ar)
- → Ottoman Turkish: هر (her)
- → Southern Altai: ар (ar)
- → Tatar: här
- → Turkmen: her
- → Uzbek: har
- Proto-Nuristani: *súwwa
- Northern Nuristani:
- Southern Nuristani:
- Martínez García, Javier, de Vaan, Michiel (2014) Introduction to Avestan (Brill Introductions to Indo-European Languages; 1)[1], Brill, →ISBN
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “sárva”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press