دی

See also: دي and ـدی

Pashto edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Pathan *day < *dáγ, from an ancestral Middle Iranian form *idág,^[1] from Proto-Iranian *Haytákah.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /d̪ai/

Pronoun edit

دی • (day)

he (visible masculine singular third person)

References edit

^ Julian Kreidl (2021) “Lambdacism and the development of Old Iranian *t in Pashto”, in Iran and the Caucasus

Persian edit

Persian Wikipedia has an article on:

دی

Wikipedia ^fa

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Persian 𐎮𐎹𐎣 (di-ya-ka /⁠diyaka⁠/), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰyás, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰyés.

Adverb edit


Iranian Persian	دی
Dari	دی
Tajik	ди

دی • (di)

(archaic) yester

Prefix edit

دیـ • (di-)

yester-

Derived terms edit

دیروز (diruz)
دیسال (disâl)
دیشب (dišab)

Etymology 2 edit

Middle Persian ddw’ (Day, “Creator”).

Pronunciation edit

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [daj]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äj]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪äj]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪äj]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ej]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äj]

Readings
Classical reading^?	day
Dari reading^?	day
Iranian reading^?	dey
Tajik reading^?	day

Proper noun edit


Iranian Persian	دی
Dari	دی
Tajik	Дай

دی • (dey)

Dey, the tenth month of the solar Persian calendar.

Noun edit

دی • (dey)

(dialectal, Bushehr, Khesht, Konartakhteh, Dashtestan) mother, mama

Etymology 3 edit

Borrowed from English dee.

Noun edit

دی • (di)

Transliteration of the name of the Latin-script letter d in English and other European languages.

Derived terms edit

دی‌ان‌ای (di-en-ey)

Punjabi edit

Postposition edit

دی • (dī) (Gurmukhi spelling ਦੀ)

of
Synonyms: دے (de), دا (dā)

Shina edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /diː/

Noun edit

دی (dī)

daughter

[1] Julian Kreidl (2021) “Lambdacism and the development of Old Iranian *t in Pashto”, in Iran and the Caucasus

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