قلیان

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

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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

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

Noun

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قلیان (qalyân)

  1. hookah
    Synonym: نارگیله (nârgile)

Inflection

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    Possessive forms of قلیان (qalyân)
singular plural
1st person
(“my, our”)
قلیانم
(qalyânam)
[Term?]
(qelyunam)
قلیانمان
(qalyânemân)
[Term?]
(qelyunemun)
2nd person
(“your”)
قلیانت
(qalyânat)
[Term?]
(qelyunet)
قلیانتان
(qalyânetân)
[Term?]
(qelyunetun)
3rd person
(“his, her, its, their”)
قلیانش
(qalyânaš)
[Term?]
(qelyuneš)
قلیانشان
(qalyânešân)
[Term?]
(qelyunešun)
Colloquial.

Descendants

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  • Russian: калья́н (kalʹján)

References

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  • 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