سفید

Persian

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Alternative forms

• سپید (sapid, sepid)
• اسپید (espid)
• اسفید (esfid)
• اسبید (esbid)

Etymology

From earlier سپید (sapêd), from Middle Persian spyt' (spēd, “white”), from Old Iranian *spaita- (compare Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬀 (spaēta, “white”)), from Proto-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-Iranian (compare Sanskrit श्वेत (śvetá, “white, bright”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweytos (“bright; shine”) (compare Old Church Slavonic свѣтъ (světŭ), Old English hwīt (“white”).

Pronunciation

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): [seˈfiːd̪], [sæˈfiːd̪]
• (Tehrani accent) IPA^(key): [seˈfiːd̪]
• (Dari) IPA^(key): [sæˈfed̪]

Adjective

Dari	سفید
Iranian Persian	سفید
Tajik	сафед (safed)

سفید • (safid, sefid)

1. white
2. fair
3. pale
4. clear

Derived terms

• سفیدی
• سفیدک
• سفیده

Descendants

• Hindi: सफ़ेद
• Urdu: سفید

See also

• (basic colors) رنگ; آبی, بنفش, زرد, سبز, سرخ, سفید, سیاه, نارنجی ^{(Category: fa:Colors)}

References

• "spēd" in David Neil MacKenzie (1986), A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-713559-5

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Urdu

Etymology

From Persian سفید

Adjective

سفید • (safed) — Hindi spelling: सफ़ेद

1. white
2. clean
3. blank

Derived terms

• سفیدہ
• سفیدی