چهره

چهره

See also: چہرہ‎

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐭰𐭧𐭫𐭪𐭩‎ (čihrag), from Old Persian *čiθrakaʰ, from Proto-Iranian *čiθrákah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čitrám, from Proto-Indo-European *key-tróm, from *key- (“bright, burning”).[1] Cognate with Sanskrit चित्र (citra). Baluchi چِهرَگ (Čihrag, "countenance, face")

Pronunciation

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

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɪhɾa/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /t͡ʃehɾe/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /t͡ʃehɾa/

Dari	چهره
Iranian Persian
Tajik	чеҳра (čehra)

Noun

چهره • (čehre) (plural چهره‌ها‎ (čehre-hâ))

1. visage
2. face

Descendants

• → Assamese: চেহেৰা (sehera)
• → Azerbaijani: çöhrə
• → Bengali: চেহারা (cehara)
• → Gujarati: ચહેરો (cahero)
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: चेहरा (cehrā)
  • Urdu: چہرہ‎ (cehra, cihra)
• → Punjabi: ਚਿਹਰਾ (cihrā) / چہرہ‎ (cihra^h)
• → Ottoman Turkish: چهره‎ (çehre)
  • Turkish: çehre
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: чехра

    Latin: čehra

• → Uyghur: چىراي‎ (chiray)
• → Uzbek: chehra

See also

• صورت‎ (surat)

References

1. Morgenstierne, Georg (2003), “cargˈand”, in Elfenbein, J.; MacKenzie, D. N.; Sims-Williams, Nicholas, editors, A New Etymological Vocabulary of Pashto (Beitrage Zur Iranistik; 23), Weisbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert, →ISBN