دری

دری

1. Arabic spelling of dəri

From Proto-Turkic *tẹri (“skin”); cognate with Azerbaijani dəri, Bashkir тире (tire), Kazakh тері (terı), Kyrgyz тери (teri), Turkmen deri, Uyghur تېرە (tëre), Uzbek teri and Yakut тирии (tirii).

دری • (deri)

1. skin, hide, the outer protective layer of the body

   Synonyms: پوست (post), جلد (cild), قشر (kişr)

2. leather, a tough material produced from the skin of animals

   Synonyms: جلد (cild), سختیان (sahtiyan), گون (gön)

• Turkish: deri
• → Armenian: տերի (teri), դա̈րի (däri)

Borrowed from Classical Persian دَرِی (darī)

دری • (derî)

1. pertaining to court or town

دری • (derî)

1. the Persian language

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 899

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (dłyk' /⁠darīg⁠/, “of the court”). By surface analysis, در (dar, “door, gate”) +‎ ـی (-ī / -i, suffix forming adjectives). Compare Russian придворный (pridvornyj) with the same meaning, from the same root Proto-Indo-European *dʰwṓr.

Originally a more poetic or archaic synonym of فارسی (fārsī / fârsi, “Persian”), referring to all dialects. It was officially adopted by the government of Afghanistan in 1964 to refer to the varieties of Persian spoken within the country.

دری • (darī / dari) (Tajik spelling дарӣ)

1. Dari, Dari Persian (Persian as spoken in Afghanistan)

   Synonyms: فارسی دری (fārsī-yi darī / fârsi-ye dari), فارسی افغانستان (fārsī-yi afġānistān / fârsi-ye afġânestân)

   Hypernym: فارسی (fârsi)

2. (original sense, now archaic) synonym of فارسی (fārsī / fârsi, “the Persian/New Persian language”)
   • c. 1250, Zartusht Bahrām-i Pazhdaw, زراتشت‌نامه [Zarātusht Nāma]:

     ندارد بدین خط کسی دستگاه
     بترسم که گردد بیک ره تباه
     همان به که این را بنظم آوری
     بپاکیزه گفتار و خط دری

     na-dārad bad-īn xat kasē dastgāh
     bitarsam ki gardad ba yak rāh tabāh
     hamān bih ki īn rā ba nazm āwarī
     ba pākīza guftār u xatt-i darī

     Nobody has the skill to read this (Pahlavi) script,
     I fear that it shall be lost at one stroke.
     Better that you put it to versified lines,
     In a purified speech and a Persian (i.e. Perso-Arabic) script.

     (Classical Persian romanization)

دری • (darī / dari) (Tajik spelling дарӣ)

1. (obsolete) courtly

   Synonym: درباری (darbārī / darbâri)

• → Arabic: دَرِيّ (dariyy)
• → Azerbaijani: dəri
• → English: Dari
• → French: dari
• → Ottoman Turkish: دری (Derî)
• → Uzbek: dariy

From دره (darra / darre, “valley”) +‎ ـی (-ī / -i, suffix forming adjectives).

دری • (darī / dari) (Tajik spelling дарӣ)

1. (literary) relating to the valley

   Synonym: دره‌ای (darra-ī / darre-i)

   • c. 1030, Manuchehri, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     گویی بط سفید جامه به صابون زده است
     کبک دری ساق پای در قدح خون زده است

     gōyī batt-i safēd jāma ba sābūn zada ast
     kabk-i darī sāq-i pāy dar qadah-i xūn zada ast

     You would say the white duck has washed its robes with soap,
     That the valley partridge has dipped its feet in a cup of blood.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪ə.ɾiː/

دَری (darī) f

1. window

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ʊ.ɾiː/

دُری • (durī) f (Hindi spelling दुरी)

1. a big bright star

• “دری”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “دری”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.