پیراهن

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian پیرَاهَن (pērāhan, “cloak, shirt”).

Noun

پیراهن • (pîrâhen)

1. shirt, chemise, smock, or any similar garment

   Synonyms: قمیص (kamis), گوملك (gömlek)

Descendants

• Turkish: pirahen

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “pirahen”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3856
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “پیراهن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 330
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Indusium”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 788
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “پیراهن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 983
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “پیراهن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 463

Persian

Alternative forms

• پیرَهَن (pērahan / pirahan)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Iranian *pari-yāhana-, from Proto-Iranian *pari- (“around, peri-”) + *yaHs- (“to girdle, gird”). Northern Luri پیرںن (pirən). The former prefix is from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pári, from Proto-Indo-European *péri, while the latter component is from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₃s- (“to gird”). Compare Sanskrit परिधान (paridhā́na, “wrap, clothing”), Ancient Greek ζώννυμι (zṓnnumi, “to gird”) and ζώνη (zṓnē, “belt, sash”) (whence English zone), Lithuanian júosta (“band, stripe”), Proto-Slavic *pȍjāsъ (“girdle”), and Albanian gjesh (“to gird”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /peː.raː.ˈhan/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰeː.ɾɑː.ɦán]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰeː.ɾɑː.ɦán]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰeː.ɾɑːán]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰeː.ɾɔːán]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰiː.ɹɒː.ɦǽn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰe.ɾɔ.ɦán]

• Rhymes: -an

Readings
Classical reading?	pērāhan
Dari reading?	pērāhan
Iranian reading?	pirâhan
Tajik reading?	perohan

• Audio (Iran):

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Noun

پیراهن • (pērāhan / pirâhan) (Tajik spelling пероҳан)

1. cloak, shirt
2. dress, gown

Descendants

• → Kashmiri:

  Arabic script: پھؠرَن (phyaran)

  Devanagari script: फ्यरन (phyaran)

  Sharada script: 𑆦𑇀𑆪𑆫𑆤𑇀 (phyaran)

  • → English: phiran, pheran

• → Ottoman Turkish: پیرَاهَن (pîrâhen)
  • Turkish: pirahen

Further reading

• Bulkin, Carleton (2012), “پیراهن”, in Dari-English/English-Dari practical dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 83
• “پیراهن”, in The Wilson English - Dari Dictionary (Webonary), SIL International, 2013
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “پیراهن”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary (overall work in English), London: Routledge & K. Paul
• “پیراهن”, in Вожаҷӯ / واژه‌جو [Vožajü] (in Tajik), 2026