شلوار

شلوار

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• شالوار‎ (şalvar)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian شلوار‎ (šalvâr).

Noun

شلوار • (şelvar) (plural شلوارلر‎)

1. shalwar, loose trousers worn in some South Asian or Islamic countries

   Synonyms: (trousers) ایچ طون‎ (iç don), طومان‎ (tuman)

Derived terms

• شلوارلو‎ (şalvarlı, “dressed in shalwars”)

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

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “şalvar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4424
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “شلوار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 732
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Subligaculum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1614
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “شلوار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2853
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “şalvar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007), “1435. ŠILVǍ) RI sb. f.”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 179
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “شلوار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1134

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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 (vartikʿ), 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

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʃalˈwɑːɾ/

• (Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /ʃalˈwɑːɾ/

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /ʃælˈvɒːɾ/

• (Tajik) IPA^(key): /ʃalˈvɔɾ/

Noun

Dari	شلوار
Iranian Persian
Tajik	шалвор (šalvor)

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

1. trousers

Synonyms

• ازار‎ (ezâr)
• پای‌جامه‎ (pây-jâme)
• پتلون‎ (patlûn) (Dari)
• سروال‎ (servâl) (archaic)
• تنبان‎ (tombân) (dated)

Derived terms

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

Descendants

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

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

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

  • → English: shalwar, salwar
• → Indonesian: salwar
• → Kalmyk: шалвр (shalvr)
• → 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