پرواز

Borrowed from Persian پرواز (parvâz).

پرواز • (pervaz)

1. flight, flying, soaring
2. soaring of the spirit from mundane trivialities
3. (in compounds) that flies, possessed of flight

پرواز • (pervaz)

1. high-flying, soaring

• Turkish: pervaz

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pervaz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3832
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پرواز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 320
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Volare”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1787
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پرواز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 791
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pervaz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پرواز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 444

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پرواز • (pervaz)

1. any ornamental border, such as a cornice, a molding, a fringe, etc.

   Synonym: (fringe) صاچاق (saçak)

• Turkish: pervaz
• → Armenian: փերվազ (pʻervaz), փա̈րվա̈զ (pʻärväz)
• → Romanian: pervaz

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pervaz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3832
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پرواز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[5] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 320
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Margo”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[6], Vienna, column 1011
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پرواز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[7], Vienna, column 791
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pervaz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پرواز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[8], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 445

From Middle Persian [script needed] (plwʾc /⁠parwāz⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *para- + *waj- (from Proto-Indo-Iranian *waȷ́ʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-). Compare Central Kurdish دەرباز (derbaz, “flight, escape; pass”).

پرواز • (parvâz)

1. flight

   پروازِ هواپیما ― parvâz-e havâpeymâ ― flight of the plane

   پروازِ دوستم ― parvâz-e dust-am ― my friend’s flight

• → Chagatai: پَرْوَاز (parwāz)
  • Uyghur: پەرۋاز (perwaz)
  • Uzbek: parvoz
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: परवाज़ (parvāz), परवाज (parvāj) — nuqtaless
  • Urdu: پَرْوَاز (parvāz)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پَرْوَاز
  • Turkish: pervaz
• → Punjabi:
  • Gurmukhi script: ਪਰਵਾਜ਼ (parvāz), (nuqtaless) ਪਰਵਾਜ (parvāj)
  • Shahmukhi script: پَرْوَاز (parvāz)

Borrowed from Classical Persian پَرْوَاز (parwāz). First attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi پرواز (prvaz /⁠parvāz⁠/).^[1]

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pəɾ.ʋɑːz/
• Rhymes: -ɑːz
• Hyphenation: پَر‧واز

پَرْوَاز • (parvāz) f (Hindi spelling परवाज़)

1. flight (a trip on a plane)

   Synonyms: اُڑَان (uṛān), طَیَرَان (tayarān)

2. departure (of a flight)
3. access, reach
4. (figuratively) arrogance; pride

• پَرْوَاز کَرْنا (parvāz karnā)

• “پرواز”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “پرواز”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]