قلیان

Persian

یک زن ایرانی در حال کشیدن قلیان.
An Iranian woman smoking a hookah.

Alternative forms

• غلیان (ġalyân), قلیون (qalyun)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic غَلْيُون (ḡalyūn, “smoking pipe”), then hypercorrecting the ending [un] which colloquial Iranian Persian generally puts for trailing /ɒn/, with regard to the vulgar origin of the habit of tobacco smoking, which wrong deduction was also supported by reminiscence of Arabic غَلَيَان (ḡalayān, “boiling”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /qal.ˈjaːn/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qäl.jɑːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qäl.jɑːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [qäl.jɑːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qäl.jɔːn]

 

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qæl.jɒːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qæl.jɒːn]
  • (Tehrani) IPA^(key): [qel.juːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [qäl.jɔn]

Readings
Classical reading?	qalyān
Dari reading?	qalyān
Iranian reading?	ġalyân
Tajik reading?	qalyon

Noun

قلیان • (qalyân)

1. calean, hookah, narghile

   Synonym: نارگیله (nârgile)

Inflection

Possessive forms of قلیان

	singular	plural
1st person (“my, our”)	قلیانم (qalyânam, qelyunam△)	قلیانمان (qalyânemân, qelyunemun△)
2nd person (“your”)	قلیانت (qalyânat, qelyunet△)	قلیانتان (qalyânetân, qelyunetun△)
3rd person (“his, her, its, their”)	قلیانش (qalyânaš, qelyuneš△)	قلیانشان (qalyânešân, qelyunešun△)

^△ Colloquial.

Derived terms

• قلیان کشیدن (qalyân kašidan, “to smoke hookah”)
• قلیان‌کش (qalyân-kaš, “hookah smoker”)
• کدوقلیانی (kadu-qalyâni, “calabash”)

Descendants

• → English: calean
• → Azerbaijani: qəlyan
• → Northern Luri: غںڵۆ (qəłø)
• → Russian: калья́н (kalʹján)
  • → Belarusian: калья́н (kalʹján)
  • → Ukrainian: калья́н (kalʹján)

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “غليان”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864), “غلیان”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 617b