Khalaj edit

Postposition edit

بَرایِ (bərâyı)

  1. Arabic spelling of bərâyı (because of, towards)

Persian edit

Alternative forms edit

  • (informal, usually in compounds with enclitic pronouns) برا (barâ)

Etymology edit

From a grammaticalized phrase in Middle Iranian, *pad rāy ((literally) for the thing), itself composed of Proto-Iranian *pati- (for, towards, against) + *rādi- (reason, thing), the latter a lexicalization of the locative singular of Proto-Iranian *rād-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HraHdʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₁dʰ- (to think, arrange, accomplish).[1]

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? barāyi
Dari reading? barāyi
Iranian reading? barâye
Tajik reading? baroyi

Preposition edit

Dari برای
Iranian Persian
Tajik барои

برای (barâye)

  1. for
  2. in order to

Descendants edit

  • Khalaj: bərâyı
  • Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਬਰਾਏ (barāē)
    Shahmukhi script: براے (barāē)
  • Urdu: برائے (barāey)

References edit

  1. ^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2020) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 6, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 451; 456