پاس

See also: تاس, باش, تاش, بأس, بَاس, and باس

Kashmiri

Perso-Arabic	پاس (pās)
Devanagari	पास (pās)
Sharada	𑆥𑆳𑆱 (pāsa)

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit पार्श्व (pārśva).

Noun

پاس • (pās) m

1. a side

Etymology 2

From Classical Persian پاس (pās).

Noun

پاس • (pās) m

1. consideration, thoughtfulness
2. sake

   خۄدایہِ سٕنٛدِ پاسہٕ ― khọdāyhi sụndi pāsụ ― for God's sake

3. mercy, pity

Etymology 3

From English pass.

Noun

پاس • (pās) m

1. a pass (document to grant permission)

Etymology 4

From English pass.

Noun

پاس • (pās) m

1. success in an exam

Ottoman Turkish

پاس

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bas (“residue”); cognate with Azerbaijani pas and Turkmen pos.

Noun

پاس • (pas) (definite accusative پاسی (pası), plural پاسلر (paslar))

1. rust, tarnish, the deteriorated state of iron or steel due to oxidation

   Synonyms: چرك (çirk), ژنك (jenk), صدا (sada)

Derived terms

• باقر پاسی (bakır pası, “verdigris”)
• پاس آچمق (pas açmak, “to derust”)
• پاس باغلامق (pas bağlamak, “to rust”)
• پاس سیلمك (pas silmek, “to derust”)
• پاس طوتمق (pas tutmak, “to rust”)
• پاس لاله‌سی (pas lalesi, “brown iris”)
• پاسلاتمق (paslatmak, “to rust”)
• پاسلانمق (paslanmak, “to rust”)
• پاسلو (paslı, “rusty”)

Descendants

• Turkish: pas

Further reading

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• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881), “پاس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 380
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “pas1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3787
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “پاس”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 101b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “پاس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 313
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Rubigo”, 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 1493
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “پاس”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 654
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “pas”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “پاس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 433

Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (pʾs /⁠pās⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *páHθrah, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-tro-, from *peh₂- (“to protect”); see there for further information. Doublet of پهره (pahre).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈpaːs/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɑːs]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɑːs]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰɑːs]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰɔːs]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɒːs]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɔs]

Readings
Classical reading?	pās
Dari reading?	pās
Iranian reading?	pâs
Tajik reading?	pos

Noun

پاس • (pâs)

1. guard, watch

   Synonyms: پهره (pahre), کشک (kešek), قراولی (qarâvoli), پاسبانی (pâsbâni), نگهبانی (negahbâni)

2. watch of the night
   • 1258, Shaykh Muṣliḥ-ud-Dīn Saʿdī of Shiraz, translated by Wheeler M. Thackston, The Gulistan (Rose Garden) of Sa’di: Bilingual English and Persian Edition with Vocabulary, Bethesda, MD: Ibex Publishers, published 2008, →ISBN, page 15:

     پاسی از شب بگذشت.

     pasē az šab biguḏašt.

     A portion of the night passed.

     (Classical Persian romanization)

3. (chiefly as به پاس) consideration, considering

   به پاس خدمات شما ― be pâs-e xedmât-e šomâ ― in consideration of your service

Derived terms

• پاس دادن (pâs dâdan)
• پاسبان (pâsbân)
• پاسدار (pâsdâr)
• پاسداشت (pâsdâšt)

Related terms

• پاسارگاد (pâsârgâd)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English pass.

Pronunciation

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɒːs]

Readings
Iranian reading?	pâs

Noun

پاس • (pâs)

1. pass, passing

Derived terms

• پاس کردن (pâs kardan, “to pass”)
• پاس گل (pâs-e gol, “assist”)

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀧𑀲𑁆𑀲 (passa), 𑀧𑀸𑀲 (pāsa), from Sanskrit पार्श्वे (pārśve). Cognate with Marathi पासून (pāsūn), Gujarati પાસે (pāse).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pɑːs/

Adverb

پاس • (pās) (Hindi spelling पास)

1. near, nearby

Noun

پاس • (pās) m (Hindi spelling पास)

1. nearby

Declension

Declension of پاس

	singular	plural
direct	پاس (pās)	پاس (pās)
oblique	پاس (pās)	پاسوں (pāsõ)
vocative	پاس (pās)	پاسو (pāso)

Synonyms

• نَزْدِیک (nazdīk), قَرِیب (qarīb)

Derived terms

• آس پاس (ās pās, “nearby”, adverb)
• کے پاس (ke pās, “belonging to”, postposition)

Further reading

• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “پاس”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 327
• Platts, John T. (1884), “پاس”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 217
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “پاس”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 144
• “پاس”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• John Shakespear (1834), “پاس”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 361
• “پاس”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.