چهره

See also: چہرہ

Chagatai

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian چهره (čihra)

Noun

چهره • (čhrh /čihrä, čehrä/) (plural چهره‌ها (/⁠čihrä-hā, čehrä-hā⁠/))

  1. face, visage
    Synonyms: یوز (ywz /⁠yüz⁠/), پیکر (pykr /⁠päykär⁠/), جبین (jbyn /⁠jäbīn⁠/), روی (rwy /⁠rūy⁠/), چیرای (čyrāy /⁠čıray⁠/)
    • 1484, Ali-Shir Nava'i, فرهاد و شیرین [Farhad and Shirin], page 260b, line 29:
      قیو صورت که مانی قیلدی تمثال
      انکا فرهاد آچتی چهره فول حال
      qyw ṣwrt kh māny qyldy tms̱āl
      ʾnkā frhād ʾāčty čhrh fwl ḥāl
      /qayu sūrät ki mānī qıldı timsāl
      aŋa färhād ačtı čihrä fiwl hāl      /
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

  • Uzbek: chehra

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian 𐭰𐭧𐭫𐭪𐭩 (čihrag), from Old Persian *čiθrakah, from Proto-Iranian *čiθrákah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čitrám, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷi-tróm, from *kʷey- (“bright, burning”).[1] Cognate with Sanskrit चित्र (citra) and Baluchi چِهرَگ (čihrag, “countenance, face”)

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? čihra
Dari reading? čehra
Iranian reading? čehre
Tajik reading? čehra
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Noun

چهره • (čihra / čehre) (plural چهره‌ها (čihra-hā / čehre-hâ), Tajik spelling чеҳра)

  1. visage
  2. face

Descendants

See also

References

  1. ^ Morgenstierne, Georg (2003), “cargˈand”, in J. Elfenbein, David Neil MacKenzie, Nicholas Sims-Williams, editors, A New Etymological Vocabulary of Pashto (Beitrage Zur Iranistik; 23), Weisbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert, →ISBN
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