چهره

See also: چہرہ

Chagatai

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian چهره (čihra)

Noun

چهره (čihrä or čehrä) (plural چهره‌ها (čihrä-hā or čehrä-hā))

  1. face, visage
    Synonyms: یوز (yüz), پیکر (päykär), جبین (jäbīn), روی (rūy)
    • 1484, Ali-Shir Nava'i, فرهاد و شیرین [Farhad and Shirin], page 260b, line 29:
      قیو صورت که مانی قیلدی تمثال
      انکا فرهاد آچتی چهره فول حال
      qayu ṣūrät ki mānī qildi tims̠āl
      aŋa färhād ačti čihrä fiwl ḥāl
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

  • Uyghur: چىراي (chiray)
  • Uzbek: chehra, chiroy

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian 𐭰𐭧𐭫𐭪𐭩 (čihrag), from Old Persian *čiθrakah, from Proto-Iranian *čiθrákah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čitrám, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷi-tróm, from *kʷey- (“bright, burning”).[1] Cognate with Sanskrit चित्र (citra). Baluchi چِهرَگ (čihrag, “countenance, face”)

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? čihra
Dari reading? čehra
Iranian reading? čehre
Tajik reading? čeha
  • Audio (Iran):(file)

Noun

Dari چهره
Iranian Persian
Tajik чеҳра

چهره • (čehre) (plural چهره‌ها (čehre-hâ))

  1. visage
  2. face

Descendants

See also

References

  1. ^ Morgenstierne, Georg (2003) “cargˈand”, in Elfenbein, J., MacKenzie, D. N., Sims-Williams, Nicholas, editors, A New Etymological Vocabulary of Pashto (Beitrage Zur Iranistik; 23), Weisbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert, →ISBN
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