پنبه

پنبه

See also: تنته‎

Gilaki

Etymology

From Middle Persian pmbk'.

Noun

پنبه (panba)

1. cotton

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پنبه‎ (pambe, “cotton”), itself from Middle Persian pmbk' and thus a doublet of پاموق‎ (pamuk, “cotton”). Only the literal meaning "cotton" is attested up to the early 18^th century, while the meaning "rosy, pink" is attested later and cannot be reliably justified from the colour of cotton (although there are natural colored varieties of cotton, including pink).

Noun

پنبه • (pembe)

1. cotton, the vegetal fibers produced by plants of the genus Gossypium

   Synonyms: پاموق‎ (pamuk), قطن‎ (kutn)

2. (by extension) anything soft, white or unsoiled
3. pink, a color between red and white

Adjective

پنبه • (pembe)

1. pink, having a color between red and white

   Synonyms: گلگون‎ (gülgûn), گل رنگ‎ (gülreng)

Coordinate terms

Colors in Ottoman Turkish · بویلر‎ (boyalar) (layout · text)

آق‎ (ak)	بوز‎ (boz)	قره‎ (kara)
قزل‎ (kızıl); آل‎ (al)	ترنجی‎ (türünci); قوڭور‎ (koñur)	صاری‎ (sarı)
	یشیل‎ (yeşil)
	گوك‎ (gök)	ماوی‎ (mavi)
مور‎ (mor)	افلاطون‎ (eflatun)	پنبه (pembe)

Derived terms

• توز پنبه‌سی‎ (toz pembesi, “very light pink color”)
• پنبه یݣاق‎ (pembe yañak, “rosy cheek”)
• پنبه‌بز‎ (pembebez, “carder of cotton”)
• پنبه‌دار‎ (pembedar, “padded with cotton”)
• پنبه‌ریس‎ (pemberis, “cotton-spinning machine”)
• پنبه‌زار‎ (pembezar, “kind of light shirting material”)
• پنبه‌كن‎ (pembeken, “cotton gin”)
• پنبه‌چول‎ (pembeçul, “kind of light shirting material”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: pembe
• → Armenian: փեմպե (pʿempe)
• →⇒ Laz: ფემბელი (pembeli)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “pembe”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3816
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “پنبه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 324
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Gossipium”, 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 660
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “پنبه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 893
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “pembe”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “پنبه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 453

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Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian pmbk' (pambag, “cotton”).

Pronunciation

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

• (Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /pamˈba/

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

• (Tajik) IPA^(key): /pamˈba/

Noun

Dari	پنبه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	панба (panba)

پنبه • (panbe) (plural پنبه‌ها‎ (panbe-hâ))

1. cotton

Descendants

• → Arabic: بمبه‎
• → Central Kurdish: پەمبە‎ (pembe)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پنبه‎
  • Turkish: pembe
• → Georgian: ბამბა (bamba)
• → Northern Kurdish: pembû
• → Urdu: پنبہ‎ (pamba)
• → Zazaki: peme

References

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