زیرا
Persian
Alternative forms
- ازیرا (azirâ) (poetic)
Etymology
- Short for از (az, “from”) + این (in, “this”) + راه (râh, “way”).
- Short for از (az, “from”) + این (in, “this”) + رای (rây, “reason”).
Conjunction
زیرا • (zirâ)
- (literary) because
- چون که زیرا (colloquial) ― čon ke zirâ ― equivalent to English “because I said so” (literally, “because because”)
- Synonym: چون (čon)
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: zira
- → Middle Armenian: զէրէ (zērē), զէրայ (zēray), զէրա (zēra)
- Armenian: զերե (zere)
- → Ottoman Turkish: زیرا (zira)
- Turkish: zira