دریا

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian دریا‎ (daryâ).

Noun

دریا • (deryâ)

1. (geography) river

   Synonym: ایرماق‎ (ırmaq)

2. (geography) sea

   Synonym: دكز‎ (deŋiz)

Proper noun

دریا • (Deryâ)

1. A female given name, Derya, Darya

References

• Redhouse, J. W. (1884), “sea”, in A Lexicon, English and Turkish, 3rd edition, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 667

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Persian

Alternative forms

• دریاب‎ (daryāb)

Etymology

From Earlier Persian دریاب‎ (daryāb) from Middle Persian [script needed] (dlydʾp̄ /drayāb/, “sea”), from Old Persian 𐎭𐎼𐎹 (d-r-y /draya/, “ocean, sea”), from Proto-Iranian *jráyah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ráyas. Cognate with Avestan 𐬰𐬭𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬢𐬵‎ (zraiiaŋh, “sea”), Sanskrit ज्रयस् (jráyas, “expanse”), Northern Kurdish zerya (“sea”).

Pronunciation

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

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /daɾjɒː/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /dæɾjɒː/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /daɾjɔː/
• (dialectal, Bushehr) IPA^(key): [deɾˈjɒː]

Noun

Dari Persian	دریا
Iranian Persian
Tajik	дарё (daryo)

دریا • (daryâ) (plural دریاها‎ (daryâ-hâ))

دریا

1. sea
2. ocean
3. river

Synonyms

• (ocean): اقیانوس‎ (oqyânus), زراه‎ (zerâh)
• (sea): بحر‎ (bahr), زراه‎ (zerâh)
• (river): رود‎ (rôd), رودخانه‎ (rudxâne), نهر‎ (nahr)

Derived terms

• آمو دریا‎ (Âmu Daryâ)
• دریائی‎ (daryâ'i) / دریایی‎ (daryâyi)
• دریابان‎ (daryâ-bân)
• دریازده‎ (daryâ-zade)
• دریانورد‎ (daryâ-navard)
• دریانوردی‎ (daryâ-navardi)
• دریاچه‎ (daryâče)
• دریاکنار‎ (daryâ-kenâr)
• دل به دریا زدن‎ (del be daryâ zadan)
• سیر دریا‎ (Sir Daryâ)

 

Borrowed terms

• Assamese: দৰিয়া (doria)
• Azerbaijani:

  Northern Azeri: dərya (daryā)

  Southern Azeri: دریا‎ (daryā)

• Bengali: দরিয়া (dôriẏa)
• Gujarati: દરિયો (dariyo)
• Hindi: दर्या (daryā)
• Kashmiri: दर्या (daryā)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: derya, derîya, deriya

  Central Kurdish: دەریا‎ (derya)

• Kyrgyz: дарыя (darıya)
• Ottoman Turkish: دریا‎ (deryâ)
  • Turkish: derya
• Pashto: درياب‎ (daryā́b, “sea; lake”)
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਦਰਿਆ (dariā)

  Shahmukhi: دریا‎ (daryā)

• Talysh:

  Central Talysh, Southern Talysh: دریا‎ (daryā)

  Northern Talysh: dərya (daryā)

• Turkmen: derýa
• Urdu: دریا‎ (daryā)
• Uyghur: دەريا‎ (derya)
• Uzbek: дарё / daryo

Proper noun

دریا • (daryâ)

1. A female given name, Darya, from Middle Persian.

Descendants

• Turkish: Derya

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “drayā(b)”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press

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Punjabi

Etymology

From Persian دریا‎ (daryâ).

Noun

دریا • (daryā) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਦਰਿਆ)

1. (geography) river

Synonyms

• ندی‎ (nadī)

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Urdu

Etymology

From Persian دریا‎ (daryâ, “sea, river”).

Noun

دریا • (daryā) m (Hindi spelling दर्या)

1. river

   ‏وہ دریا کنارے کھڑی ہے‎ ― vo daryā kināre khaṛī hai ― she is standing at the bank of the river

2. (literary) sea

Synonyms

• (river): رود‎ (rūd), ندی‎ (nadī)
• (sea): سمندر‎ (samandar), ساگر‎ (sāgar)

Derived terms

• دریائی‎ (daryāī)
• دریاچہ‎ (daryācā)