پشیمان

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

پشمان (pişman) — vulgar
փէշիման (peşiman), փիշման (pişman), փիւշման (püşman) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Iranian Persian (pašimân).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /peʃiːˈmaːn/, (vulgar) /piʃˈman/

Noun

پشیمان • (peşiman)

regretful, remorseful, sorry
Synonym: نادم (nadim)

پشیمان اولمق ― peşiman olmak ― to regret

Derived terms

پشیمانلق (peşimanlık)
پشیمانی (peşimani)

Descendants

Turkish: pişman
→ Albanian: pishman
→ Armenian: փիւշման (pʻiwšman), փուշման (pʻušman)
→ Aromanian: pishman
→ Bulgarian: пишма́н (pišmán)
→ Macedonian: пишман (pišman)
→ Serbo-Croatian: pìšmān / пѝшма̄н

References

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2017) “peşiman”, in Ötüken Osmanlı Türkçesi Sözlüğü (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, →ISBN, page 3836a
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پشیمان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 450a
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پشیمان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 323a
Pōzačean, Yakovbos (1841) “փէշիման”, in Hamaṙōt baṙaran i tačkakanē i hay [Concise Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary]‎^[3], Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, pages 949b, 955a, 957a
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پشیمان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 835

Persian

Alternative forms

پشمان

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (pšymʾn' /⁠pašēmān⁠/, “penitent, repentant”). Akin to Old Armenian փաշաման (pʻašaman), a Middle Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /pa.ʃeː.ˈmaːn/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰʊ.ʃäj.mɑ́ːn]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰä.ʃeː.mɑ́ːn]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰä.ʃeː.mɔ́ːn]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰæ.ʃiː.mɒ́ːn]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰu.ʃäj.mɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading^?	pašēmān
Dari reading^?	pušaymān
Iranian reading^?	pašimân
Tajik reading^?	pušaymon

Adjective


Iranian Persian	پشیمان
Dari	پشیمان
Tajik	пушаймон

پشیمان • (pašimân) (comparative پشیمان‌تَر, superlative پشیمان‌تَرین)

regretful, sorry, penitent
- 1010, Ferdowsi, شاهنامه [Shahnameh]:
  سپهبد پشیمان شد از کار اوی
  بپیچید ازان راست گفتار اوی
  sipahbud pašēmān šud az kār-i ōy
  bipēčīd az ān rāst guftār-i ōy
  The general became penitent from those deeds of his;
  He writhed [from shame] at those righteous words of his.
  (romanization in Classical Persian)

Derived terms

پشیمان شدن (pašimân šodan)
پشیمانی (pašimâni)

Descendants

→ Azerbaijani: peşman
→ Middle Armenian: փոշիման (pʻošiman), փօշաման (pʻōšaman), փոշըման (pʻošəman), փոշման (pʻošman)
- Armenian: փոշման (pʻošman)
→ Gujarati: પશિમાન (paśimān), પશેમાન (paśemān)
→ Ottoman Turkish: پشیمان (peşiman), پشمان (pişman) — vulgar, փէշիման (peşiman), փիշման (pişman), փիւշման (püşman) — Armeno-Turkish
- Turkish: pişman
- → Albanian: pishman
- → Armenian: փիւշման (pʻiwšman), փուշման (pʻušman)
- → Aromanian: pishman
- → Bulgarian: пишма́н (pišmán)
- → Macedonian: пишман (pišman)
- → Serbo-Croatian: pìšmān / пѝшма̄н

References

Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “փաշաման”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 481a