برای

Khalaj

Postposition

بَرایِ (bərâyı)

1. Arabic spelling of bərâyı (“because of, towards”)

Persian

Alternative forms

• برا (barâ) (Iran, colloquial, usually in compounds with enclitic pronouns)
• برهٔ (bara-yi /⁠bara-yi, barē⁠/) (colloquial Dari)
• بری (barey) (dialectal, Shiraz)

Etymology

From a grammaticalized phrase in Middle Iranian, *pad rāy (“(literally) for the thing”), itself composed of Proto-Iranian *pati- (“for, towards, against”) + *rādi- (“reason, thing”), the latter a lexicalization of the locative singular of Proto-Iranian *rād-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HraHdʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₁dʰ- (“to think, arrange, accomplish”). By surface analysis, به (be, “for”) +‎ رای (rây, “reason”) +‎ ـِ (-e, “ezafe”) Akin to Northern Kurdish bi ... re.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ba.ˈraː.ji/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bä.ɾɑ́ː.jɪ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bä.ɾɑ́ː.jɪ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [bä.ɾá.jɪ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bä.ɾɔ́ː.ji]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bæ.ɹɒ́ː.je]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bä.ɾɔ́.ji]

Readings
Classical reading?	barāyi
Dari reading?	barāyi
Iranian reading?	barâye
Tajik reading?	baroyi

Preposition

برای • (barā-yi / barâ-ye) (Tajik spelling барои)

1. for
2. in order to

Derived terms

• برای این‌که (barā-yi īn-ki / barâ-ye in-ke, “because”)
• برای چه (barā-yi či / barâ-ye če, “why”)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: bərayi-
• → Chagatai: از برای (ʾz brāy /⁠äz bärā-yı⁠/)
  • Uyghur: ئەزبىرايى (ezbirayi)
  • Uzbek:

    Latin script: azbaroyi

    Cyrillic script: азбаройи (azbaroyi)

    Afghan Uzbek: اَزْبَرایِ (azbaroyi)

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: बराए (barāe)

  Urdu: بَرائے (barāe)

• → Khalaj: bərâyı
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਬਰਾਏ (barāē)

  Shahmukhi script: براے (barāē)