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برسی

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Central Kurdish

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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برسی (birsî)

  1. hungry

Persian

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Verb

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برسی (beresi)

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of رسیدن (residan)

Urdu

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Etymology

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From بَرَس (baras, year) +‎ ـی ().

Pronunciation

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Noun

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بَرْسی (barsīf (Hindi spelling बरसी)

  1. death anniversary
  2. (Hinduism) a memorial held at one's death anniversary

Declension

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Declension of برسی
singular plural
direct بَرْسی (barsī) بَرْسِیاں (barsiyā̃)
oblique بَرْسی (barsī) بَرْسِیوں (barsiyō̃)
vocative بَرْسی (barsī) بَرْسِیو (barsiyō)

Further reading

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  • برسی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • برسی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “برس”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024), “برسی”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]