برف

See also: برق‎ and ترف‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian برف‎ (barf).

Noun

برف • (berf)

1. snow, the frozen state of water that falls as precipitation

   Synonyms: ثلج‎ (selc), قار‎ (kar)

Derived terms

• برفاب‎ (berfab, “melted snow”)
• برفدار‎ (berfdar, “snowy”)
• برفدان‎ (berfdan, “icehouse”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: berf

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “berf”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 554
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “برف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 261
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Nix”, 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 1141
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “برف”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 775
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “budak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “برف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 356

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐭥𐭯𐭫‎ (ʿpl /wafr/), from Proto-Iranian *wafrah (“snow”). Compare Northern Kurdish berf, Central Kurdish بەفر‎ (befr).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /baɾf/

• (Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /baɾf/

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /bæɾf/

• (Tajik) IPA^(key): /baɾf/

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Noun

Dari	برف
Iranian Persian
Tajik	барф (barf)

برف • (barf)

1. snow

Related terms

• برفی‎ (barfi)
• برف آمدن‎ (barf âmadan)
• برف باریدن‎ (barf bâridan)
• برف‌روب‎ (barf-rub)
• آدم برفی‎ (âdam-barfi)

Descendants

• → Bengali: বরফ (bôrof)
• → Bhojpuri: बरफ (baraph)
• → Gujarati: બરફ (baraph)
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: बर्फ़ (barf)
  • Urdu: برف‎ (barf)
• → Marathi: बर्फ (barpha)
• → Nepali: बरफ (baraph)
• → Omani Arabic: برف‎ (barf)
  • → Swahili: barafu
• → Ottoman Turkish: برف‎ (berf)
• → Punjabi: ਬਰਫ਼ / برف (barf)
• → Sindhi: بَرْفَ‎ (barfa)
• → Varli: બરફ

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian برف‎ (barf).

Noun

بَرف • (barf) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਬਰਫ਼)

1. snow

Sindhi

Noun

بَرْفَ (barfa) (Devanagari बर्फ़‎)

1. snow

Southwestern Fars

Noun

برف (barf)

1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv) snow

Urdu

برف (barf, "snow") laying beneath trees in a valley in Gilgit-Baltistan

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بَرْف‎ (barf), derived from Middle Persian 𐭥𐭯𐭫‎ (ʿpl /wafr/), from Proto-Iranian *wafrah (“snow”) ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wapras. Cognate with Wakhi ورف‎ (warf), Pashto واوره‎ (wâwra) and Baluchi برپ‎ (barp).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bəɾf/

Noun

برف • (barf) f (Hindi spelling बर्फ़)

1. snow
2. ice
3. (figurative) cold, frigid
4. (figurative) white, shiny, glimmering

Derived terms

• بَرْفاب‎ (barfāb)
• بَرْف َانی‎ (barf anī)
• بَرْف باری‎ (barf bārī)
• بَرْف بَرَسْنا‎ (barf barasnā)
• بَرْف پَرْورْدَہ‎ (barf parvarda)
• بَرْف پَڑْنا‎ (barf parnā)
• بَرْف پوش‎ (barf pōš)
• بَرْف پِینا‎ (barf pīnā)