پشه

See also: بسة

Khalaj

Noun

پَشّه (paşşa) (definite accusative پَشّه‌نؽ, plural پَشّه‌لار)

  1. Arabic spelling of paşşa (mosquito, gnat)

Declension

Declension of پشه
singular plural
nominative پشه پشه‌لار
genitive پشه‌ݧ پشه‌لارؽݧ
dative پشه‌قا پشه‌لارقا
definite accusative پشه‌ݧ پشه‌لارؽ
locative پشه‌چا پشه‌لارچا
ablative پشه‌دا پشه‌لاردا
instrumental پشه‌لا پشه‌لارلا
equative پشه‌واره پشه‌لارواره

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (phšk' /⁠paxšag⁠/, mosquito, gnat),[1] from Old Iranian *paxšaka-.[2] Northern Luri پںشغںە (pəşqə).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [pʰä.ʃä], [pʰäʃ.ʃä]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [pʰä.ʃä], [pʰäʃ.ʃä]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [pʰä.ʃä], [pʰäʃ.ʃä]

Readings
Classical reading? paša, pašša
Dari reading? paša, pašša
Iranian reading? paša, pašše
Tajik reading? paša, pašša

Noun

Dari پشه
Iranian Persian
Tajik пашша, хомӯшак

پشه • (paša, pašša / paše, pašše) (plural پشه‌ها (paša-hā, pašša-hā / paše-hâ, pašše-hâ), Tajik spelling пашша)

  1. mosquito
    Synonyms: پشه‌کوره (paše-kure), خموش (xamuš), موشه (muše), سارخک (sâraxk), سپیدپر (sepid-par)
  2. (dialectal) fly
    Synonym: مگس (magas)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Chagatai: پشه (pšh /⁠päššä⁠/)
  • Hindustani:
    Urdu: پَشَّہ (paśśa)
  • Kazakh: маса (masa, mosquito)
  • Khalaj: paşşa (mosquito)
  • Turkmen: peşe (mosquito)

References

  1. ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “paxšag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 66
  2. ^ Asatrian, Garnik (2011), A Comparative Vocabulary of Central Iranian Dialects[1] (in Persian), Tehran: Safir Ardehal Publications, page 633

Southwestern Fars

Alternative forms

Noun

پشه (paša)

  1. (Kuzarg) fly