برای

Khalaj

Postposition

بَرایِ (bərâyı)

  1. Arabic spelling of bərâyı (“because of, towards”)

Persian

Alternative forms
  • (informal, usually in compounds with enclitic pronouns) برا (barâ)

Etymology

From a grammaticalized phrase in Middle Iranian, *pad rāy (“(literally) for the thing”), itself composed of Proto-Iranian *pati- (“for, towards, against”) + *rādi- (“reason, thing”), the latter a lexicalization of the locative singular of Proto-Iranian *rād-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HraHdʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₁dʰ- (“to think, arrange, accomplish”).[1]

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [bä.ɾɑ́ː.jɪ]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [bä.ɾɑ́ː.jɪ]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [bä.ɾɔ́ː.ji]

Readings
Classical reading? barāyi
Dari reading? barāyi
Iranian reading? barâye
Tajik reading? baroyi

Preposition
Dari برای
Iranian Persian
Tajik барои

برای • (barâye)

  1. for
  2. in order to

Descendants
  • → Khalaj: bərâyı
  • → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਬਰਾਏ (barāē)
    Shahmukhi script: براے (barāē)
  • Urdu: برائے (barāey)

References
  1. Edelʹman, D. I. (2020) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 6, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 451; 456
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