ابریشم

ابریشم

Persian

Alternative forms

• بریشم‎ (barišam) (poetic, obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾp̄lyšwm,ʾp̄lyšm /abrēšom/, “silk”), from Proto-Iranian *upawraišamah. Compare Luri ۏریشںم‎ (örişəm) and Old Armenian loanword ապրիշում (aprišum, “silk”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /abɾiːˈʃam/, /abɾiːˈʃum/

• (Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /abɾiːˈʃam/, /abɾiːˈʃʊm/

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /æbɾiːˈʃæm/, /æbɾiːˈʃom/

• (Tajik) IPA^(key): /abɾeˈʃim/

Noun

Dari	ابریشم
Iranian Persian
Tajik	абрешим (abrešim)

ابریشم • (abrišam, abrišom)

1. silk

Derived terms

• ابریشم‌بافی‎ (abrišam-bâfi)
• ابریشمی‎ (abrišami)
• ابریشمین‎ (abrišamin)
• راه ابریشم‎ (râh-e abrišam)
• کرم ابریشم‎ (kerm-e abrišam)

Descendants

• → Arabic: أبريسم‎ (ʾabrīsam, ʾabrīsim), إبريسم‎ (ʾibrīsam, ʾibrīsim)
• → Bengali: রেশম (reśôm)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: रेशम (reśam)

  Urdu: ریشم‎ (rešam)

• → Old Georgian: აბრეშუმი (abrešumi) (or from the Middle Persian ancestor)
  • Georgian: აბრეშუმი (abrešumi)
    • → Bats: აფშრულ (apšrul)
    • → Mingrelian: აბრეშუმი (abrešumi), არეშუმი (arešumi), არუშუმი (arušumi)
    • → Svan: აბრეშუ̂იმ (abrešûim)
• → Ottoman Turkish: ابرشیم‎ (ibrişim)
  • → Turkish: ibrişim
• → Udi: абришӏум (abriš:um)

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “abrēšom”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 4