شیرین

Khalaj

Adjective

شیرین (şîrin)

1. Arabic spelling of şîrin (“sweet”)

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (šylyn' /⁠šīrēn⁠/, “sweet”), from [Book Pahlavi needed] (šyl /⁠šīr⁠/, “milk”). By surface analysis, شیر (šir, “milk”) +‎ ـین (-in, adjective-deriving suffix).

Compare typologically a possible Latin dulcis, lac relation.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʃiː.ˈreːn/, /ʃiː.ˈriːn/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃiː.ɾíːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃiː.ɾíːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʃiː.ɾíːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʃi.ɾín]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃiː.ɹíːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃi.ɾín]

Readings
Classical reading?	šīrēn, šīrīn
Dari reading?	šīrīn
Iranian reading?	širin
Tajik reading?	širin

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Adjective

Dari	شیرین
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ширин

شیرین • (širin) (comparative شیرین‌تَر, superlative شیرین‌تَرین)

1. sweet

   فارسی زبان شیرینی است.

   fârsi zabân-e širini ast.

   Persian is a sweet language.

2. pleasant

Derived terms

• شیرینی (širini)
• شیرین کردن (širin kardan)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: şirin
• → Bengali: শিরিন (śirin)
• → Gujarati: શીરીન (śīrīn)
• → Kazakh: шырын (şyryn)
• → Khalaj: şîrin
• → Classical Syriac: ܫܝܪܝܢ
• → Kumzari: شيرين
• → Ottoman Turkish: شیرین (şirin)

  > Turkish: şirin (inherited)

• → Uyghur: شىرىن (shirin)
• → Uzbek: shirin

Proper noun

Dari	شیرین
Iranian Persian
Tajik	Ширин

شیرین • (širin)

1. Shirin (queen of Armenia and wife of Khosrow II, a character in the Shahnameh and in Khosrow and Shirin)
2. a female given name, Shirin, from Middle Persian