تشنه

See also: تشنہ

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (tyšnk' /⁠tišnag⁠/), from Old Persian, from Proto-Iranian *tŕ̥šnakah, from Proto-Iranian *tŕ̥šnah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tŕ̥šnas, from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥s-nó-s, from *ters- (“dry”).

Compare Avestan 𐬙𐬀𐬭𐬱𐬥𐬀 (taršna), Sanskrit तृष्णा (tṛṣṇā), Ancient Greek τέρσομαι (térsomai), Latin terra, Old Armenian թառամիմ (tʻaṙamim), English thirst.

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰɪʃ.nǽ], [t̪ʰäʃ.nǽ]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [t̪ʰɪʃ.nǽ]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [t̪ʰiʃ.nǽ]

Readings
Classical reading? tišna
Dari reading? tišna, tašna
Iranian reading? tešne
Tajik reading? tašna

Adjective
Dari تشنه
Iranian Persian
Tajik ташна

تشنه • (tešne)

  1. thirsty
    تشنه هستم. (literary) ― tešne hastam. ― I am thirsty.
    تشنمه. (colloquial Iranian) ― tešna-m-e. ― I'm thirsty.
  2. in drought
  3. (figurative) eager, desiring
    تشنه آزادی ― tešne-ye âzâdi ― thirsty for freedom

Usage notes
  • In colloquial Iranian, "to be thirsty" is expressed with an enclitic pronoun attached to تشنه, then followed by ـه (-e, “is”), as in the usage example above.

Descendants
  • → Hindustani:
    • Hindi: तिश्ना (tiśnā)
    • Urdu: تشنہ (tiśnā)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: تشنه (teşne)

See also
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