دریا

Munji

Noun

دریا (daryā)

1. river

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian دریا‎ (daryâ).

Noun

دریا • (derya)

1. (geography) river

   Synonym: ایرماق‎ (ırmaq)

2. (geography) sea

   Synonym: دݣز‎ (deŋiz)

Proper noun

دریا • (Derya)

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

Persian

دریا

Alternative forms

• دریاب‎ (daryâb)

Etymology

From Earlier Persian دریاب‎ (daryâb) 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, likely from the BMAC substrate. Cognate with Avestan 𐬰𐬭𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬢𐬵‎ (zraiiaŋh, “sea”), Sanskrit ज्रयस् (jráyas, “expanse”), Northern Kurdish zerya (“sea”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [daɾ.ˈjɑː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äɾ.jɑ́ː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äɾ.jɑ́ː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪äɾ.jɑ́ː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪äɾ.jɔ́ː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪æɹ.jɒ́ː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äɾ.jɔ́]

Readings
Classical reading?	daryā
Dari reading?	daryā
Iranian reading?	daryâ
Tajik reading?	daryo

• (dialectal, Bushehr) IPA^(key): [deɾˈjɒː]

Noun

Dari	دریا
Iranian Persian
Tajik	дарё

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

1. sea
2. ocean
3. river

Synonyms

• (ocean): اُقْیانوس‎ (oqyânus), زِراه‎ (zerâh)
• (sea): بَحْر‎ (bahr), زِراه‎ (zerâh)
• (river): رود‎ (rud), رودْخانِه‎ (rudxâne), نَهْر‎ (nahr)

Derived terms

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

 

Borrowed terms

• → Assamese: দৰিয়া (doria)
• → Azerbaijani: dərya
• → Bengali: দরিয়া (doriẏa)
• → Gujarati: દરિયો (dariyo)
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: दर्या (daryā)
  • Urdu: دَرْیا‎ (daryā)
• → Kashmiri: دریا‎ (dryā)
• → Kazakh:

  Arabic script: داريا‎, دايرا‎

  Cyrillic script: дария (dariä), дайра (daira)

• → 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 script: ਦਰਿਆ (dariā)

  Shahmukhi script: دریا‎ (daryā)

• → Talysh:

  Central Talysh, Southern Talysh: دریا‎ (daryā)

  Northern Talysh: dərya (daryā)

• → Turkmen: derýa
• → Uyghur: دەريا‎ (derya)
• → Uzbek: daryo

Proper noun

دَرْیا • (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

Punjabi

Etymology

From Classical Persian دریا‎ (daryā).

Noun

دریا • (daryā) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਦਰਿਆ)

1. (geography) river

Synonyms

• ندی‎ (nadī)

Urdu

Etymology

From Classical Persian دریا‎ (daryā, “sea, river”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪əɾ.jɑː/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː

Noun

دَرْیا • (daryā) m (Hindi spelling दर्या)

1. river

   Synonyms: رُود‎ (rūd), نَدی‎ (nadī)

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

2. (literary) sea

   Synonyms: سَمَنْدَر‎ (samandar), ساگَر‎ (sāgar)

Derived terms

• دَرْیائی‎ (daryāī)
• دَرْیاچَہ‎ (daryāca)