پیشکش

پیشکش

Persian

Etymology

پیش‎ (piš, “before”) +‎ کشیدن‎ (kašidan, “to pull”)

Noun

پیشکش • (piškeš) (plural پیشکش‌ها‎ (piškeš-hâ))

1. gift, present
2. offering

Synonyms

• هدیه‎ (hediye)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: peşkəş
• → Northern Kurdish: pêşkêş
• → Middle Armenian: փէշքէշ (pʿēškʿēš), փէշքաշ (pʿēškʿaš)
  • Armenian: փեշքեշ (pʿeškʿeš)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پیشكش‎ (peşkeş)
  • Turkish: peşkeş
  • → Romanian: peșcheș

References

• Horn, Paul (1893), “pēš”, in Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 356, page 79
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “پیشکش”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 267
• Stachowski, Stanisław (1998), “peşkeş”, in Osmanlı Türkçesinde yeni Farsça alıntılar sözlüğü – Wörterbuch der neupersischen Lehnwörter im Osmanisch-Türkischen (in German), Istanbul: Simurg, § 423, page 163