دیس

See also: ـدیس and دیش

Persian

Regional synonyms of "platter"

Dari	غوری, طبق
Iranian Persian	دیس, طبق
Tajik

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪iːs]

Readings
Iranian reading?	dis

Noun

دیس • (dis)

1. (Iran) platter

Shina

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deːs/

Noun

دیس (des)

1. day

Urdu

Alternative forms

• دیش (deś)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Hindi دیس (des) (c. 1565), a semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit देश (dēśá), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *dayśás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dayćás, from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱós (“part, point, country”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪eːs/

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• Rhymes: -eːs

Noun

دیس • (des) m (Hindi spelling देस)

1. homeland
2. land; country, nation

   Synonyms: مُلْک (mulk), کِشْوَر (kiśvar)

3. (music) one of the five deepak rags

Declension

Declension of دیس
	singular	plural
direct	دیس (des)	دیس (des)
oblique	دیس (des)	دیسوں (desō̃)
vocative	دیس (des)	دیسو (desō)

Further reading

More information

• “دیس”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ديس”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “ديس”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 918
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “دیس”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “دیس”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC