پایتخت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian (pâytaxt).

Noun

پایتخت • (payitaht)

capital, capital city

Descendants

→ Crimean Tatar: paytaht
Turkish: payitaht
→ Armenian: փայիթախտ (pʻayitʻaxt)

Further reading

Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “payitaht”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Persian

Alternative forms

پای‌تخت (pâytaxt)

Etymology

From (pây, “foot”) +‎ (taxt, “throne”). Eclipsed Arabic derivative دارالسَلطَنه (dar-os-saltane) and دارالخِلافه (dâr-ol-xelâfe).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /paːj.ˈtaxt/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɑːj.t̪ʰǽxt̪]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰɑːj.t̪ʰǽxt̪]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰäj.t̪ʰǽxt̪]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɒːj.t̪ʰǽxt̪]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɔj.t̪ʰǽχt̪]

Readings
Classical reading^?	pāytaxt
Dari reading^?	pāytaxt
Iranian reading^?	pâytaxt
Tajik reading^?	poytaxt

Noun

پَایْتَخْت • (pāytaxt / pâytaxt) (plural پایتخت‌ها, Tajik spelling пойтахт)

capital, capital city
(more literary) ― tehrân pâytaxt-e irân ast. ― Tehran is the capital of Iran.

(more colloquial) ― tehrun pâytaxt-e irun-e. ― Tehran is the capital of Iran.

Descendants

→ Azerbaijani: paytaxt
→ Bashkir: пайтәхет (paytəxet)
→ Ottoman Turkish: پایتخت (pâyitaht)
- → Crimean Tatar: paytaht
- Turkish: payitaht
- → Armenian: փայիթախտ (pʻayitʻaxt)
→ Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: پایتەخت (paytext)

Northern Kurdish: paytext
→ Turkmen: paýtagt
→ Uyghur: پايتەخت (paytext)
→ Uzbek: poytaxt

Further reading

Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “پایتخت”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press