See also: تشنہ

Persian edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (tyšnk' /⁠tišnag⁠/), from Old Persian, from Proto-Iranian *tŕ̥šnakah, from Proto-Iranian *tŕ̥šnah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tŕ̥šnas, from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥s-nó-s, from *ters- (dry).

Compare Avestan 𐬙𐬀𐬭𐬱𐬥𐬀 (taršna), Sanskrit तृष्णा (tṛṣṇā), Ancient Greek τέρσομαι (térsomai), Latin terra, Old Armenian թառամիմ (tʻaṙamim), English thirst.

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? tišna
Dari reading? tišna, tašna
Iranian reading? tešne
Tajik reading? tašna

Adjective edit

Dari تشنه
Iranian Persian
Tajik ташна

تشنه (tešne)

  1. thirsty
    تشنه هستم. (literary)tešne hastam.I am thirsty.
    تشنمه. (colloquial Iranian)tešna-m-e.I'm thirsty.
  2. in drought
  3. (figurative) eager, desiring
    تشنه آزادیtešne-ye âzâdithirsty for freedom

Usage notes edit

  • In colloquial Iranian, "to be thirsty" is expressed with an enclitic pronoun attached to تشنه, then followed by ـه (-e, is), as in the usage example above.

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Hindustani:
    • Hindi: तिश्ना (tiśnā)
    • Urdu: تشنہ (tiśnā)
  • Ottoman Turkish: تشنه (teşne)

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