شیشه

From Middle Persian [script needed] (šyšk' /⁠šīšag⁠/, “bottle, flask”), seemingly from *šīš (compare Old Armenian շիշ (šiš, “bottle”), an Iranian borrowing) + common suffix -ag, probably ultimately from Semitic. Compare Biblical Hebrew שַׁיִשׁ (šayiš, “alabaster; marble”), Classical Syriac ܫܝܫܐ (šēšā, “marble”), Egyptian

(šs, “alabaster”).

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شیشهٔ شکسته (šiše-ye šekaste, “broken glass”)

شیشه • (šiše)

1. glass

   وی شیشه را شکست. ― vey šiše râ šekast. ― He broke the glass. (Iran, literary)

   اون شیشه رو شکست. ― un šiša ro šekast. ― He broke the glass. (Iran, colloquial)

   شِیشهٔ دِلَم، اَی خُدا، زیرِ سَنگ آمَده.

   šīša-yi dilam, ay xudā, zēr-i sang āmada.

   The glass of my heart, o God, comes under the stone.

   (Dari, literary)

2. bottle; flask (of glass)
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 328:

     گفت احول ز ان دو شیشه من کدام
     پیش تو آرم بکن شرح تمام

     guft ahwal z-ān du šīša man kudām
     pēš-i tu āram bikun šarh-i tamām

     Said the squint-eyed one: “Which of the two bottles shall I bring to you? Explain fully.”

     (Classical Persian transliteration)