بطری

Persian

Etymology

Steinglass and Dehkhoda both state that it is borrowed from English bottle, but corrupted.[1][2]

Dehkhoda says that it was borrowed from English merchants active in the Persian Gulf and not by Western-educated elites like most nineteenth-century European loans.[2] Compare Gulf Arabic بُطُل (buṭuḷ) for the choice of the letter ط to represent English t, which is highly unusual for a direct loan into Persian; the letter ت would be expected.

Pronunciation
Dari بوتل
Iranian Persian بطری
Tajik шиша

Readings
Iranian reading? botri

Noun

بطری • (botri) (plural بطری‌ها (botri-hâ))

  1. (Iran) bottle

References
  1. Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “بطری”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  2. Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “بطری”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
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