پیه

Khalaj

Noun

پیه (pîh) (definite accusative پیهی, plural پیهلَر)

Arabic spelling of pîh (“fat”)

Declension

Declension of
	singular	plural
nominative	پیه	پیهلَر
genitive	پیهۆݧ	پیهلَریݧ
dative	پیهکه	پیهلَرکه
definite accusative	پیهۆ	پیهلَری
locative	پیهچه	پیهلَرچه
ablative	پیهده	پیهلَرده
instrumental	پیهله	پیهلَرله
equative	پیهوارا	پیهلَروارا

Persian

Alternative forms

په (peh), پی (pi)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (TLBA /⁠pīh⁠/, “fat, tallow”),^[1] from Old Persian [Term?], from Proto-Indo-Iranian *piHtú, from Proto-Indo-European *péyh₂tu.

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈpiːh/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰiːʱ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰiː]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰi]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰiːʱ]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰiʱ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	pīh
Dari reading^?	pīh
Iranian reading^?	pih
Tajik reading^?	pih

Noun

پیه • (pīh / pih) (Tajik spelling пиҳ)

fat, tallow

Derived terms

پیهبا (pih-bâ, “tallow soup”)
دژپیه (dož-pih, “tumour, ganglion”)

Related terms

فربه (farbeh, “fat, corpulent”)

Descendants

→ Azerbaijani: piy
→ Khalaj: pîh

References

^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “pīh”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 68

Further reading

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “پیه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim