شلوار

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• شالوار (şalvar)

Etymology

From Persian شلوار (šalvâr).

Noun

شلوار • (şelvar) (plural شلوارلر)

1. trousers

Descendants

• Turkish: şalvar, şelvar
• → Albanian: shallvarë
• → Armenian: շալվար (šalvar)
• → Aromanian: shilvãri, shãlvãri, shãlivãri
• → Bulgarian: шалва́ри (šalvári)
  • → Hungarian: salavári
    • → Belarusian: шарава́ры (šaraváry)
    • → Polish: szarawary
      • → English: sherryvallies
    • → Ukrainian: шарава́ри (šaraváry)
      • → Russian: шарова́ры (šarováry)
• → Greek: σαλβάρι (salvári)
• → Macedonian: шалвари (šalvari)
• → Romanian: șalvari
• → Serbo-Croatian: ша̀лваре / šàlvare

References

• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “1435. ŠILVǍ) RI sb. f.”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[1], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 179

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Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (šlwʾl /⁠šalwār⁠/, “trousers”), from Proto-Iranian *šarawāra, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skelo- (“thigh”) + *wero- (“to cover”).

For the first part compare شل (šal, “thigh”) and Old Armenian շար-աւանդ (šar-awand), an Iranian borrowing; for the second part compare Old Armenian վարտիք (vartikʻ), also an Iranian borrowing.

Compare Iranian borrowings: Ancient Greek σαράβαρα (sarábara, “Scythian loose trousers”), σαράβαλλα (saráballa), Latin sarabala, sarabāra, Biblical Aramaic (Daniel) and Jewish Babylonian Aramaic סַרְבָּלָא (sarbālā, “trousers; a type of outer garment”), Classical Syriac ܫܪܒܠܐ (šarbālā, “trousers”), ܫܪܘܠܐ du (šarwālē, “leggings”), Classical Mandaic ࡔࡀࡓࡅࡀࡋࡀ (šaruala, “trousers”), Arabic سِرْوَال (sirwāl), سِرْبَال (sirbāl), شِرْوَال (širwāl) (dialectal), شَرْوَال (šarwāl) (modern), سِرْوَل (sirwal), سِرْوِيل (sirwīl).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑlˈvɑːɾ/
• IPA^(key): /ʃælˈwɒːɾ/
• IPA^(key): /ʃælˈvɒːɾ/
• IPA^(key): /ʃælˈvɔːɾ/

Noun

Dari	شلوار
Iranian Persian
Tajik	шалвор

شلوار • (šalvâr) (plural شلوارها (šalvâr-hâ))

1. trousers

Synonyms

• ازار (ezâr), پای‌جامه (pây-jâme), سروال (servâl) (archaic)
• تنبان (tombân) (dated)

Derived terms

• دوشلواره (do-šalvâre)
• زیرشلوار (ziršalvâr)
• زیرشلواری (ziršalvâri)
• شلوارک (šalvârak)
• کت و شلوار (kot-(o)-šalvâr)

 

Descendants

• → Tajik: шалвор (šalvor)
• → Azerbaijani: şalvar
• → Bengali: সালোয়ার (śalōẇar)
• → Georgian: შარვალი (šarvali)
• → Hindustani:

  → Hindi: शलवार (śalvār), सलवार (salvār)

  → Urdu: شلوار (śalvār), سلوار (salvār)

  • → English: shalwar, salwar
• → Indonesian: salwar
• → Kalmyk: шалвр (şalvr)
• → Kazakh: шалбар (şalbar)
• → Lezgi: шалвар (šalvar)
• → Tagalog: salawal, salwal
• → Malay: seluar, salwar
• → Nogai: шалбыр (şalbır)
• → Ottoman Turkish: شلوار (şelvar), شالوار (şalvar)
  • Turkish: şalvar, şelvar
  • → Albanian: shallvarë
  • → Armenian: շալվար (šalvar)
  • → Aromanian: shilvãri, shãlvãri, shãlivãri
  • → Bulgarian: шалва́ри (šalvári)
    • → Hungarian: salavári
      • → Belarusian: шарава́ры (šaraváry)
      • → Polish: szarawary
        • → English: sherryvallies
      • → Ukrainian: шарава́ри (šaraváry)
        • → Russian: шарова́ры (šarováry)
  • → Greek: σαλβάρι (salvári)
  • → Macedonian: шалвари (šalvari)
  • → Romanian: șalvari
  • → Serbo-Croatian: ша̀лваре / šàlvare
• → Southern Altai: шалмар (šalmar)
• → Bashkir: салбар (salbar)
• → Tatar: чалбар (çalbar)
• → Turkmen: jalbar

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “šalwār”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 79
• “šrbl”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “srbl”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Björkman, Walther (1997) “Sirwāl”, in Encyclopaedia of Islam. Second Edition, volume 9, Leiden: Brill, page 676
• Brockelmann, Carl (1928) “ܫܪܒܠܐ”, in Lexicon Syriacum (in Latin), 2nd edition, Halle: Max Niemeyer, published 1995, page 806b
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 1022a
• Shooshtary, Dakhil (2012) “Trouser”, in Mandaic Dictionary: English Mandaic, Bloomington: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 294