آتش

See also: اِتْسْ, أبس, and اپس

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Classical Persian آتش (âtaš).

Noun

آتش • (ateş)

1. fire

   Synonym: اود (od)

Derived terms

• آتشجی (ateşci, “stoker”)
• آتشدان (ateşdan, “fireplace”)
• آتشك (ateşek)
• آتشلك (ateşlik)

Descendants

• Turkish: ateş

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “ateş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “آتش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 19

Persian

آتش

Alternative forms

• آتیش (ātīš) (dialectal, Tehrani)

Etymology

From Middle Persian ʾthš (ātaxš, “fire”), borrowed from Avestan 𐬁𐬙𐬀𐬭𐬱 (ātarš, “fire”) for its special meaning in Zoroastrianism and well preserved unlike the other word آذر (âzar, “fire”). Doublet of آذر. Ultimately from Proto-Iranian *HáHtr̥š; see there for further information.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔaː.ˈtaʃ/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.t̪ʰáʃ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.t̪ʰáʃ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.t̪ʰɪ́ʃ], [ʔɑː.t̪ʰéːʃ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔː.t̪ʰáʃ]

 

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒː.t̪ʰǽʃ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒː.t̪ʰǽʃ]
  • (Tehrani) IPA^(key): [ʔɒː.t̪ʰíːʃ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɔ.t̪ʰáʃ]

Readings
Classical reading?	ātaš
Dari reading?	ātaš
Iranian reading?	âtaš
Tajik reading?	otaš

Noun

آتش • (ātaš / âtaš) (plural آتش‌ها (ātaš-hā / âtaš-hâ), Tajik spelling оташ)

1. fire

   Synonyms: آذر (âzar), حریق (hariq)

Derived terms

• آتش زدن (âtaš zadan)
• آتش گرفتن (âtaš gereftan)
• آتشدان (âtašdân)
• آتشین (âtašin)
• آتش‌بس (âtaš-bas)
• آتش‌فشان (âtaš-fešân)
• آتش‌نشان (âtaš-nešân)
• آتش‌نشانی (âtaš-nešâni)
• آتش‌پرست (âtaš-parast)
• آتش‌کده (âtaš-kade)

Descendants

• Tajik: оташ (otaš)
• → Bengali: আতশ (atoś)
• → Chagatai: آتش (ʾātš)
  • Uyghur: ئاتەش (atesh)
  • Uzbek: otash
• → Gujarati: આતશ (ātaś)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: आतिश (ātiś), आतश (ātaś)

  Urdu: آتِش (ātiś), آتَش (ātaś)

• → Kyrgyz: аташ (ataş)
• → Northern Kurdish: atêş, ateş
• → Old Anatolian Turkish: آتَشْ (āteş)
  • Azerbaijani: atəş
  • Gagauz: ateş
  • Ottoman Turkish: آتش (ateş)
    • Turkish: ateş
• → Old Armenian: աթաշ (atʻaš)
  • → Armenian: աթաշ (atʻaš)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਆਤਸ਼ (ātaś)

  Shahmukhi script: آتَش (ātaś)

• → Turkmen: ataş

Further reading

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “آتش”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press.
• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “آتش”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Urdu

آتش

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian آتش (ātaš).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑː.t̪ɪʃ/, /ɑː.t̪əʃ/

Noun

آتِش or آتَش • (ātiś or ātaś) f (Hindi spelling आतिश or आतश)

1. fire; flame

   Synonym: آگ (āg)

2. anger; rage
3. passion, zeal

Derived terms

• آتش گاہ (ātiś/ātaś gāh, “fireplace”)
• آتش دان (ātiś/ātaś dān, “fireplace”)
• آتش زنہ (ātiś/ātaś zana, “flint”)
• آتش کَدَہ (ātiś/ātaś kada, “fire-temple”)

References

• “آتش”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “آتش”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “آتش”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “آتش”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.

Uzbek

Noun

آتش (otash) (plural آتشلر)

1. Afghan Uzbek spelling of otash

Further reading

• Aimaq, Dr. Fayzullah (2007), “آتش”, in فرهنگ اوزبیکی به فارسی / دری [farhang-i ōzbēkī ba fārsī / darī, Uzbek-Persian/Dari dictionary] (overall work in Persian), page 135