پیمان

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ptmʾn' /⁠paymān⁠/, “measure, period; moderation; treaty”), ultimately from *pati- and *maH- (“to measure”). Related to the verb پیمودن (peymudan, “to measure”). Compare the Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian պայման (payman), Old Georgian პაემანი (ṗaemani), Arabic فَيْمَان (faymān).

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [pʰäj.mɑ́ːn]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [pʰäj.mɑ́ːn]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [pʰäj.mɔ́ːn]

Readings
Classical reading? paymān
Dari reading? paymān
Iranian reading? peymân
Tajik reading? paymon

Noun
Dari پیمان
Iranian Persian
Tajik паймон

پیمان • (peymân) (plural پیمان‌ها (peymân-hâ))

  1. pledge
  2. pact
  3. agreement
  4. contract

Derived terms
  • هم‌پیمان (ham-peymân)

Descendants
  • → Azerbaijani: peyman
  • → Ottoman Turkish: پیمان (peyman)
  • → Turkmen: peýman
  • → Urdu: پیمان (paimān)
  • → Uzbek: paymon

Proper noun
Dari پیمان
Iranian Persian
Tajik Паймон

پیمان • (peymân)

  1. a male given name, Payman, Peyman, or Paymon.

Further reading

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian پیمان (paymān).

Pronunciation

Noun

پیمان • (paimān) m (Hindi spelling पैमान)

  1. measuring
  2. agreement, compact, convention, treaty, stipulation, pledge, promise; security; confirmation; asseveration, oath

Further reading
  • “پیمان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “پيمان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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