رئیس

See also: رئيس and رییس

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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Arabic رَأَسَ (raʔasa)

Arabic رَئِيس (raʔīs)bor.

Ottoman Turkish رئیس

Borrowed from Arabic رَئِيس (raʔīs).

Noun

رئیس • (reʼis) (definite accusative رئیسی (reʼisi), plural رؤسا (rüʼesâ))

1. boss, chief, leader

   Synonym: قوجه (koca)

2. reis

Derived terms

• رئیس افندی (reʼis efendi, “Minister of Foreign Affairs”)
• رئیس وكیلی (reʼis-i vükela, “vicepresident”)
• لیمان رئیسی (liman reʼisi, “harbor-master”)

Descendants

• Turkish: reis
• → Albanian: reis
• → Armenian: ըռէյիզ (əṙēyiz), ռէյիս (ṙēyis)
• → English: reis
• → Macedonian: реис (reis)

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “reis”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3951
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “reîs”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎ [Ottoman–Turkish Encyclopedic Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1061
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “رئیس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 636
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Caput”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 151
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “رئیس”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2407
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “رئیس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 999

Persian

Alternative forms

• رییس (rayīs / rayis)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic رَأَسَ (raʔasa)

Arabic رَئِيس (raʔīs)bor.

Persian رئیس

Borrowed from Arabic رَئِيس (raʔīs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ra.ˈʔiːs/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [rä.ʔíːs]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [rä.ʔíːs]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [rä.jíːs]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [rä.jís]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɹæ.ʔíːs]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɾä.jís]

• Rhymes: -iːs

Readings
Classical reading?	ra'īs
Dari reading?	ra'īs
Iranian reading?	ra'is
Tajik reading?	rayis

• Audio (Iran):

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Noun

رئیس • (ra'īs / ra'is) (plural رؤساء (ru'asā' / ro'asâ'), Tajik spelling раис)

1. president
2. chief, chairperson
3. head
4. boss

Related terms

• رئیسه (ra'īsa / ra'ise, “female president, head, etc.”)
• رئیس‌جمهور (ra'īs-jumhūr / ra'is-jomhur)

Descendants

• Tajik: раис (rayis)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: रईस (raīs)

  Urdu: رَئِیس (raīs)

• → Turkmen: reýis
• → Uyghur: رەئىس (re'is)
• → Uzbek: rais

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic رَأَسَ (raʔasa)

Arabic رَئِيس (raʔīs)bor.

Classical Persian رَئِیس (ra'īs)bor.

Urdu رئیس

Borrowed from Classical Persian رَئِیس (ra'īs), borrowed from Arabic رَئِيس (raʔīs).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɾə.(ʔ)iːs/, [ɾə.iːs]
• Rhymes: -iːs

Noun

رَئِیس • (raīs) m (formal plural رُؤَسا (ruasā), Hindi spelling रईस)

1. nobleman, a rich man, prince
2. president, chief, head, chairperson, boss

Declension

Declension of رئیس

	singular	plural
direct	رَئِیس (raīs)	رَئِیس (raīs)
oblique	رَئِیس (raīs)	رَئِیسوں (raīsõ)
vocative	رَئِیس (raīs)	رَئِیسو (raīso)