پیاس

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

بیاس (bayas), پیاص (payas)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بياس, ultimately from Ancient Greek Παίας (Paías).

Proper noun

پیاس • (payas)

Payas (a town and district of Hatay Province, Turkey)

Descendants

Turkish: Payas

Further reading

Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Payas”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پیاس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 462
Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Payas”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[2], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 609

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Apabhramsa पिआस (piāsa), from Prakrit 𑀧𑀺𑀯𑀸𑀲𑀸 (pivāsā), from Sanskrit पिपासा (pipāsā).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pjɑːs/

Noun

پیاس • (pyās) f (Hindi spelling प्यास)

thirst
کیا تمھیں پیاس لگی ہے؟ ― kyā tumhẽ pyās lagī hai? ― Are you thirsty?

Declension

Declension of **پیاس**
	singular	plural
direct	پیاس (pyās)	پیاسیں (pyāsẽ)
oblique	پیاس (pyās)	پیاسوں (pyāsõ)
vocative	پیاس (pyās)	پیاسو (pyāso)

Derived terms

پیاسا (pyāsā)

References

Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پیاس”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 171
“پیاس”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.