هوشیار

Persian

Alternative forms

  • هشیار (hošyâr)

Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐭠𐭥𐭱𐭣𐭠𐭫 (ōšyār, “conscious”), a pre-Middle Persian compound equivalent to Middle Persian 𐭠𐭥𐭱 (ōš, “consciousness, intellect”) + 𐭣𐭠𐭫 (dār, “having”), with a phonetic shift *ušiy-dar > *ušiy-yar > *ušiyar > ōšyār.

The first component is from Old Persian [script needed] (ušiy, “consciousness, intelligence”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws (compare Northern Kurdish hiş), while the second component is from Middle Persian, from Old Persian, from Proto-Iranian *dar-,[1] from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰar- (to hold, carry; to bear, support), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to hold”).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? hōšyār
Dari reading? hōšyār
Iranian reading? hušyâr
Tajik reading? hüšyor

Noun

Dari هوشیار
Iranian Persian
Tajik ҳӯшёр

هوشیار • (hôšyâr)

  1. aware, alert
  2. intelligent
  3. awake, conscious
  4. clever, cunning
  5. sober

Proper noun

هوشیار • (hôšyâr)

  1. a male given name.

References

  1. ^ Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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