ترین

See also: ترين and تزين

Central Kurdish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tɪɾin/

Suffix

-تِرین (-tirîn)

  1. A suffix forming the superlative degree of an adjective.

See also

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (-tar, comparative suffix) + Middle Persian [script needed] (-ēn, attributive identifying suffix). The superlative sense is not inherited from Middle Persian. Indeed, the modern distinction between comparative تر (-tar, “more”) and superlative ترین (-tarin, “most”) did not exist in Early New Persian (late first millennium), when both forms could be used for both senses.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [t̪æˈɾin], [t̪æˈɾiːn]
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Dari ترین
Iranian Persian
Tajik -тарин

Suffix

ترین • (-tarin)

  1. more; -est; a suffix forming the superlative degree of an adjective.
    جوان‌ترین < جوان ― javân > javân-tarin ― young > youngest
    آناکوندای سبز سنگین‌ترین و بزرگ‌ترین گونه مار جهان است.
    ânâkondâ-ye sabz sangin-tarin va bozorg-tarin gune-ye mâr-e jahân ast.
    The green anaconda is the heaviest and biggest species of snake in the world.

Usage notes

Unlike those suffixed with تر (-tar), an adjective suffixed with ترین (-tarin) precedes the attributed noun.

The ترین (-tarin) form of the adjective cannot be used alone as a predicate. It must either be followed by a noun, or the synonymous construction تر از همه (-tar az hame, literally “more than all [else]”) must be used.

  • تر (-tar, “more”)

References
  1. Mauro Maggi, Paola Orsatti (2018) “From Old to New Persian”, in The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics‎: “In Early New Persian, there is no clear distinction yet between the comparative and superlative functions of -tar and -tarīn respectively, as these may express both meanings.”
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