برای
Khalaj edit
Postposition edit
بَرایِ (bərâyı)
- 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
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ba.ˈɾɑː.ji]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [bæ.ɹɒ́ː.je]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [bä.ɾɔ́.ji]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | barāyi |
Dari reading? | barāyi |
Iranian reading? | barâye |
Tajik reading? | baroyi |
Preposition edit
Dari | برای |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | барои |
برای • (barâye)
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2020) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 6, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 451; 456