پیشگیر

See also: پیشكیر

Persian

Etymology

From (pêš) +‎ (gir).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /peːʃ.ˈɡiːɾ/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰeːʃ.ɡíːɾ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰeːʃ.ɡíːɾ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰiʃ.ɡíɾ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰiːʃ.ɡʲíːɹ]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰeʃ.ɡíɾ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	pēšgīr
Dari reading^?	pēšgīr
Iranian reading^?	pišgir
Tajik reading^?	pešgir

Noun

پیشگیر • (pêš-gir)

towel
napkin

Descendants

→ Azerbaijani: peşkir (dialectal)
→ Ottoman Turkish: پیشگیر (pîşgîr), پشگیر (peşgir), پشكیر (peşkir), پشكر (peşker)
- Turkish: peşkir, dialectally also peşgir, peşker
- → Albanian: peshqir, peshkir — Gheg, peshir — Gheg
- → Arabic: بَشْكِير (baškīr)
- → Armenian: փեշկիր (pʻeškir)
- → Bulgarian: пешки́р (peškír)
- → Greek: πεσκίρι (peskíri)
- Kurdish:
  → Northern Kurdish: pêjgîr, pêşkîr
- → Macedonian: пешкир (peškir)
- → Romanian: peșchir
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: пѐшкӣр
  Latin script: pèškīr
→ Zazaki: pésger

References

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “پیشگیر”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul