پوچ

See also: بوح and بوچ

Persian

Etymology

Uncertain. The word does not occur in Middle Persian writings, except possibly in the Dēnkard, a 10th-century compendium, where it can be interpreted as "nihility";[1] whence it would be inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (pwc /⁠pūč⁠/). The word became widespread in Iranian varieties first in the fifteenth century onward, but existed before it.[1]

Possibly from the onomatopoetic Proto-Iranian *pū- (“to blow”), whence also Persian پوک (pūk / puk, “hollow”).[2] Has been compared to Middle Persian [Term?] (/⁠pūdag⁠/, “foul, rotten”).[1]

Compare, however, also Proto-Turkic *boĺ (“free, empty”).

Iranic cognates

Cognate with Northern Kurdish pûç, Gurani [script needed] (pūt), Shughni [script needed] (pūč), Sangisari پوچ (pūč), Zazaki puç, Talysh püç (“empty”), possibly also dialectal Talysh poş (“empty”) (unless the latter is from Azerbaijani boş).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? pūč
Dari reading? pūč
Iranian reading? puč
Tajik reading? puč

Adjective

پوچ • (pūč / puč) (Tajik spelling пуч)

  1. empty, vacant
  2. injudicious, ignorant, absurd

Derived terms

  • پوچی (pūčī / puči)
  • پوچ‌گرایی (pūč-garāyī / puč-garâyi, “nihilism”)

Descendants

  • → Armenian: փուչ (pʻučʻ)
  • → Azerbaijani: puç
  • → Georgian: ფუჭი (puč̣i)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Yusef, Saadat (2020), “Contributions to Middle Persian Lexicography”, in The Digital Archive of Brief Notes & Iran Review (DABIR), volume 7, pages 128–148
  2. ^ Cabolov, R. L. (2010), Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 124

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