پزشک

See also: ترسگ

Persian

Alternative forms

• بزشک (bezešk), بجشک (beješk) (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (bcšk'), 𐫁𐫉𐫏𐫢𐫐 (bzyšk /⁠bizešk⁠/, “doctor, physician”), borrowed from Parthian 𐫁𐫉𐫏𐫢𐫐 (bzyšk /⁠bizešk⁠/, “doctor, physician”), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *bišajkah. Compare Iranian borrowing Old Armenian բժիշկ (bžišk). Further related to Sanskrit भिषज्यति (bhiṣajyati, “to heal”), भिषज् (bhiṣaj, “curing; medicine; doctor”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /pi.ˈziʃk/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɪ.zɪʃk]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɪ.zɪʃk]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰɪ.zɪʃk]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰi.ziʃk]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰe.zeʃkʰʲ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰi.ziʃk]

• Rhymes: -iʃk

Readings
Classical reading?	pizišk
Dari reading?	pizišk
Iranian reading?	pezešk
Tajik reading?	pizišk

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Noun

Dari	پزشک
Iranian Persian
Tajik	пизишк

پزشک • (pizišk / pezešk) (plural پزشکان (piziškān / pezeškân), Tajik spelling пизишк)

1. doctor, physician

   Synonyms: دکتر (doktor), طبیب (tabib, Archaic or literary), حکیم (hakim, archaic)

Inflection

Basic forms of پزشک

	singular	plural
bare	پزشک (pezešk)	پزشکان، پزشکا△ (pezeškấn, pezeškấ△)
definitive direct object	پزشک را، پزشک رو△ (pezešk râ, pezeško△)	پزشکان را، پزشکا رو△ (pezeškấn râ, pezeškấ ro△)
ezâfe	پزشک (pezešk-e)	پزشکان، پزشکای△ (pezeškấn-e, pezeškấ-ye△)
marked indefinite or relative definite	پزشکی (pezešk-i)	پزشکانی، پزشکایی△ (pezeškấn-i, pezeškấi△)

^△ Colloquial.

Derived terms

• پزشکی (pezeški, “healing”)
• چشم‌پزشک (češm-pezešk, “ophthalmologist”)
• دندان‌پزشک (dandân-pezešk, “dentist”)
• روان‌پزشک (ravân-pezešk, “psychiatrist”)

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “bizešk”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
• Rastorgujeva, V. S.; Edelʹman, D. I. (2003), Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 63