پیس
Persian
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (pys /pēs/, “mottled, leprous; leper”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ-. Akin to Old Armenian պիսակ (pisak), an Iranian borrowing.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /peːs/
- (Dari Persian) IPA(key): /peːs/
- (Iranian Persian) IPA(key): /piːs/
- (Tajik) IPA(key): /pes/
Noun
پیس • (pis)
- leprosy
Adjective
پیس • (pis)
- leprous
- (transferred sense) vile, ignoble
Related terms
- پیسه (pise)
Descendants
- → Armenian: փիս (pʿis) (via Turkic)
- → Azerbaijani: pis
- → Georgian: ფისი (pisi)
- → Northern Kurdish: pîs
- → Middle Armenian: փիս (pʿis)
- → Ottoman Turkish: پیس (pis)
- Turkish: pis
- → Pashto: پېس (pes)
References
- Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “պիսակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 84–85
- Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, pages 230–231
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 68
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “پیس”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 265