چهره

See also: چہرہ

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐭰𐭧𐭫𐭪𐭩 (čihrag). from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čitrám, from Proto-Indo-European *key-tróm, from *key- (“bright, burning”). Cognate with Sanskrit चित्र (citra).

Pronunciation

Dari	چهره
Iranian Persian	جهره
Tajik	чеҳра

Noun

چهره • (čehre) (plural چهره‌ها (čehre-hâ))

1. visage
2. face

Descendants

• → Assamese: চেহেৰা (sehera)
• → Azerbaijani: çöhrə
• → Bengali: চেহারা (cehara)
• → Gujarati: ચહેરો (cahero)
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: चेहरा (cehrā)
  • Urdu: چہرہ (cehra)
• → Punjabi: ਚਿਹਰਾ (cihrā)
• → Ottoman Turkish: چهره (çehre)
  • Turkish: çehre
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: чехра

    Latin script: čehra

• → Uyghur: چىراي (chiray)

See also

• صورت (surat)