پیراهن

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پیراهن (pirâhan, “shirt”).

Noun

پیراهن • (pirahen)

1. shirt, chemise, smock, or any similar garment

   Synonyms: قمیص (kamis), گوملك (gömlek)

Descendants

• Turkish: pirahen

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pirahen”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3856
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پیراهن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 330
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Indusium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 788
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پیراهن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 983
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پیراهن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 463

Persian

Alternative forms

• پیرهن (pirhan)

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *pari-yāhana-,^[1] from Proto-Iranian *pari- (“around, peri-”) + *yaHh- (“to girdle, gird”). The former prefix is from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pári, from Proto-Indo-European *péri, while the latter component is from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₃s- (“to gird”), and cognate with Ancient Greek ζώννυμι (zṓnnumi, “to gird”) and ζώνη (zṓnē, “belt, sash”) (whence English zone), Lithuanian júosta (“band, stripe”), Proto-Slavic *pȍjāsъ (“girdle”), and Albanian gjesh (“to gird”).^[2]

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [peː.ɾɑː.ˈhan]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰeː.ɾɑː.ɦǽn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰeː.ɾɑː.ɦǽn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰeː.ɾɑːǽn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰeː.ɾɔːǽn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰiː.ɹɒː.ɦǽn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰe.ɾɔ.ɦǽn]

Readings
Classical reading?	pērāhan
Dari reading?	pērāhan
Iranian reading?	pirâhan
Tajik reading?	perohan

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Noun

Dari	پیراهن
Iranian Persian
Tajik	пероҳан

پیراهن • (pirâhan)

1. shirt
2. dress, gown

References

1. Edelʹman, D. I. (2011) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 4, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 129
2. Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 210-11

Further reading

• Bulkin, Carleton (2012) “پیراهن”, in Dari-English/English-Dari practical dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 83
• “پیراهن”, in The Wilson English - Dari Dictionary (Webonary), SIL International, 2013
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “پیراهن”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• “پیراهن”, in Вожаҷӯ / واژه‌جو [Vožajü] (in Tajik), 2024