برف
Ottoman Turkish
Noun
برف • (berf)
Derived terms
- برفاب (berfab, “melted snow”)
- برفدار (berfdar, “snowy”)
- برفدان (berfdan, “icehouse”)
Descendants
- Turkish: berf
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “berf”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 554
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “برف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 261
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Nix”, 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 1141
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “برف”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 775
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “budak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “برف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 356
Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian 𐭥𐭯𐭫 (ʿpl /wafr/), from Proto-Iranian *wafrah (“snow”). Compare Northern Kurdish berf, Central Kurdish بەفر (befr).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [baɾf]
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [bäɾf]
- (Kabuli) IPA(key): [bäɾf]
- (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [bäɾf]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [bæɹf]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [bäɾf]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | barf |
| Dari reading? | barf |
| Iranian reading? | barf |
| Tajik reading? | barf |
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Related terms
- برفی (barfi)
- برف آمدن (barf âmadan)
- برف باریدن (barf bâridan)
- برفروب (barf-rub)
- آدم برفی (âdam-barfi)
Descendants
Punjabi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian برف (barf).
Southwestern Fars
Urdu
برف (barf, "snow") laying beneath trees in a valley in Gilgit-Baltistan
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian بَرْف (barf), derived from Middle Persian 𐭥𐭯𐭫 (ʿpl /wafr/), from Proto-Iranian *wafrah (“snow”) ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wapras. Cognate with Wakhi ورف (warf), Pashto واوره (wâwra) and Baluchi برپ (barp).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /bəɾf/
- (Punjabic Urdu) IPA(key): [bə.ɾəf]
- Rhymes: -əɾf
Noun
بَرْف • (barf) f (Hindi spelling बर्फ़)
Declension
| Declension of برف | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| direct | بَرْف (barf) | بَرْفیں (barfẽ) |
| oblique | بَرْف (barf) | بَرْفوں (barfõ) |
| vocative | بَرْف (barf) | بَرْفو (barfo) |
Derived terms
Derived terms
- بَرْفاب (barfāb)
- بَرْفانی (barfānī)
- بَرْف باری (barf bārī)
- بَرْف بَرَسْنا (barf barasnā)
- بَرْف پَرْورْدَہ (barf parvrda)
- بَرْف پَڑْنا (barf paṛnā)
- بَرْف پوش (barf poś)
- بَرْف پِینا (barf pīnā)
- بَرْفی (barfī)
Further reading
- “برف”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “برف”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- “برف”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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