پا

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Persian پا (pa).

Noun

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پا (pa)

  1. the foot
  2. the leg
  3. a hind-leg in a quadruped
  4. a foundation, base, pedestal, leg, lower part of various inanimate things; also, the stern of a ship or boat
  5. power; firmness, durability, constancy
  6. a footing
  7. a footstep, trace, vestige
  8. a pretext, excuse, assigned cause
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Further reading

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Persian

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Etymology 1

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From earlier پای (pây), from Middle Persian [script needed] (pāy), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎭 (pād(a)), from Proto-Iranian *pā́dah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pā́ts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds (foot).[1]

Alternative forms

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پاهای یک مردpâ-hâ-ye yek mardA man's legs and feet

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading?
Dari reading?
Iranian reading?
Tajik reading? po

Noun

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Dari پا
Iranian Persian
Tajik по

پا () (plural پاها (pâ-hâ))

  1. leg
  2. foot
    • 2006, Black Cats, جون خودت:
      ببين چطور دلم افتاده به پات
      bebin četor delam âftâde be pât
      Look how my heart fell to your feet
  3. limb
Derived terms
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nouns

adjectives and adverbs

verbs

Descendants
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  • Ottoman Turkish: پا (pa)
  • Urdu: پا ()

Etymology 2

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Preposition

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پا ()

  1. (dialectal, Khesht, Konartakhteh, Dashtestan) (used only when followed by possessive suffixes) with

References

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  1. ^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2020) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 6, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 52

Southern Kurdish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Iranian *pā́dah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pā́das, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds (foot).

Noun

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پا ()

  1. (anatomy) leg

Urdu

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Persian پا ().

Noun

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پا (m

  1. foot
    Synonym: پاؤں (pāũ)
  2. leg
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Further reading

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  • Platts, John T. (1884) “پا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

Etymology 2

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Verb

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پا () (Hindi spelling पा)

  1. inflection of پانا (pānā):
    1. stem
    2. second-person singular intimate present imperative

Further reading

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  • Platts, John T. (1884) “پا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.