برهنه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian برهنه.

Adjective

برهنه • (bürehne)

  1. (literary, poetic) naked
    Synonym: چپلاق

References
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “برهنه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 116

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian bl(ʾ)hnk' (brahnag),[1][2] from Proto-Iranian *bagnákah, with secondary -r-, from Proto-Iranian *bagná (“naked”),[3] from Proto-Indo-Iranian *nagnás, from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“naked”); see there for further information.

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [bä.ɾäɦ.nǽ]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [bä.ɾɑː.nǽ]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [bä.ɾɔː.nǽ]

Readings
Classical reading? barahna
Dari reading? barahna
Iranian reading? berahne
Tajik reading? barahna

Adjective
Dari برهنه
Iranian Persian
Tajik бараҳна

برهنه • (berahne)

  1. bare, naked, nude
    Synonyms: لخت (loxt), عریان (oryân)
    دیروز یک زن برهنه دیدم.
    Diruz yek zan-e berahne didam. (more literary)
    دیرو یه زن برهنه دیدم.
    Diru ye zan-e berahne didam. (more colloquial)
    I saw a naked woman yesterday.

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Urdu: برہنہ (barahna)

References
  1. Bailey, H. W. (1967) Prolexis to the Book of Zambasta (Indo-Scythian Studies Being Khotanese Texts; 6), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 256
  2. MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 19
  3. Čong (Cheung), Dž. (2009) T. K. Salbijeva, transl., Očerki istoričeskovo razvitija osetinskovo vokalizma [Studies in the Historical Development of the Ossetic Vocalism] (in Russian), Vladikavkaz: Izdatelʹsko-poligrafičeskoje predprijatije im. V. Gassijeva, →ISBN, page 41
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.