تشنه

See also: تشنہ

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (tyšnk' /⁠tišnag⁠/), from Old Persian, from Proto-Iranian *tŕ̥šnakah, from Proto-Iranian *tŕ̥šnah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tŕ̥šnas, from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥s-nó-s, from *ters- (“dry”).

Compare Avestan 𐬙𐬀𐬭𐬱𐬥𐬀 (taršna), Sanskrit तृष्णा (tṛṣṇā), Ancient Greek τέρσομαι (térsomai), Latin terra, Old Armenian թառամիմ (tʻaṙamim), English thirst.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /tiʃ.ˈna/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɪʃ.ná], [t̪ʰäʃ.ná]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɪʃ.ná], [t̪ʰäʃ.ná]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɪʃ.ná]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰiʃ.ná]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰeʃ.né]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäʃ.ná]

Readings
Classical reading?	tišna
Dari reading?	tišna, tašna
Iranian reading?	tešne
Tajik reading?	tašna

Adjective

Dari	تشنه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ташна

تشنه • (tišna / tešne) (Tajik spelling ташна)

1. thirsty

   تِشْنِه هَسْتَم. (literary, Iranian) ― tešne hastam. ― I am thirsty.

   تِشْنَمِه. (colloquial Iranian) ― tešna-m-e. ― I'm thirsty.

2. in drought
3. (figurative) eager, desiring

   تِشْنِهٔ آزادی ― tešne-ye âzâdi ― thirsty for freedom

Usage notes

• In colloquial Iranian, "to be thirsty" is expressed with an enclitic pronoun attached to تشنه, then followed by ـه (-e, “is”), as in the usage example above.

Related terms

• تشناب (tašnâb)
• تشنگی (tešnegi)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: təşnə
• → Hindustani:
  • → Hindi: तिश्ना (tiśnā)
  • → Urdu: تِشْنَہ (tiśna)
• → Ottoman Turkish: تشنه (teşne)
  • → Turkish: teşne

See also

• (literary) گرسنه (gorosne, “hungry”)
• (colloquial) گشنه (gošne, “hungry”)