پیہن

Brahui

Alternative forms

• پِیئُن (pīun)

Etymology

Unknown. Bray questions a connection with Proto-Dravidian *weḷ (“white”) but this is phonologically implausible.

Adjective

پِیہُن (pīhun)

1. white
2. silver

   Antonym: خِیسُن (xīsun)

3. (figurative) cleared of, done with (with اُسْت (ust) as the subject)
4. (euphemistic) blackened, dirty

Derived terms

• پِیہُنِی (pīhunī, “whiteness”)
• پِیہُن کَنِّنْگ (pīhun kanniṅg, “to whiten, bleach”)

Related terms

Colors in Brahui · رَنْگ (raṅg) (layout · text)

پِیہُن (pīhun)	کَمَاش (kamāś)	کَرِی (karī), مَہون (mahon), مون (mon)
خِیسُن (xīsun)	بور (bor)	پُوشْکُن (pūśkun)
	خَرُّن (xarrun)
		خَرُّن (xarrun)

Noun

پِیہُن (pīhun)

1. white colour
2. silver (metal)

Further reading

• Bray, Denys (1934) “pīun”, in The Brahui Language‎^[1], Calcutta, India: Superintendent Government Printing, Part II: The Brāhūī Problem; Part III: Etymological Vocabulary, page 240
• Ali, Liaquat, Kobayashi, Masato (2024) “pīhun”, in Brahui Texts: Glossed and Translated Short Stories and Folktales‎^[2], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, page 721
• Delforooz, Behrooz Barjasteh (2020) “pīun”, in “Two Brahui Texts with Glossary and Grammatical Analysis”, in Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies‎^[3], volume 12, number 1, page 117 of 89–122