برای

بَرایِ (bərâyı)

1. Arabic spelling of bərâyı (“because of, towards”)

• برا (barâ) (informal, usually in compounds with enclitic pronouns)
• بری (barey) (dialectal, Shiraz)

From a grammaticalized phrase in Middle Iranian, *pad rāy (“(literally) for the thing”), itself composed of Proto-Iranian *pati- (“for, towards, against”) + *rādi- (“reason, thing”), the latter a lexicalization of the locative singular of Proto-Iranian *rād-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HraHdʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₁dʰ- (“to think, arrange, accomplish”).^[1] By surface analysis, به (be, “for”) +‎ رای (rây, “reason”) +‎ ـِ (-e, “ezafe”) Akin to Northern Kurdish bi ... re.

برای • (barây-e)

1. for
2. in order to

• برای این‌که (barây-e in-ke, “because”)
• برای چه (barây-e če, “why”)

• → Azerbaijani: bərayi-
• → Khalaj: bərâyı
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਬਰਾਏ (barāē)

  Shahmukhi script: براے (barāē)

• →⇒ Uyghur: ئەزبىرايى (ezbirayi)
• →⇒ Uzbek: azbaroyi
• → Urdu: بَرائے (barāe)