پایتخت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پایتخت (pâytaxt).

Noun

پایتخت • (payitaht)

1. capital, capital city

Descendants

• → Crimean Tatar: paytaht
• Turkish: payitaht
• → Armenian: փայիթախտ (pʻayitʻaxt)

Further reading

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “payitaht”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Persian

Etymology

From پای (pây, “foot”) +‎ تخت (taxt, “throne”). Eclipsed Arabic derivative دارالسَلطَنه (dar-os-saltane) and دارالخِلافه (dâr-ol-xelâfe).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [pɑːj.ˈtaxt]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɑːj.t̪ʰǽxt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɑːj.t̪ʰǽxt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰɑːj.t̪ʰǽxt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰäj.t̪ʰǽxt̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɒːj.t̪ʰǽxt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɔj.t̪ʰǽχt̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	pāytaxt
Dari reading?	pāytaxt
Iranian reading?	pâytaxt
Tajik reading?	poytaxt

Noun

Dari	پایتخت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	пойтахт

پایْتَخْت • (pâytaxt) (plural پایتخت‌ها (pâytaxt-hâ))

1. capital, capital city

   تهران پایتخت ایران است. (more literary) ― tehrân pâytaxt-e irân ast. ― Tehran is the capital of Iran.

   تهرون پایتخت ایرونه. (more colloquial) ― tehrun pâytaxt-e irun-e. ― Tehran is the capital of Iran.

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: paytaxt
• → Bashkir: пайтәхет (paytəxet)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پایتخت (pâyitaht)
  • → Crimean Tatar: paytaht
  • Turkish: payitaht
  • → Armenian: փայիթախտ (pʻayitʻaxt)
• Kurdish
  • → Central Kurdish: پایتەخت (paytext)
  • → Northern Kurdish: paytext
• → Turkmen: paýtagt
• → Uyghur: پايتەخت (paytext)
• → Uzbek: poytaxt

Further reading

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “پایتخت”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press