شیء

See also: شيء and سيء

Persian

Alternative forms

• شی (šey)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَيْء (šayʔ, “thing”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʃajʔ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäjʔ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäjʔ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʃäj]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʃäj]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃejʔ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäjʔ]

Readings
Classical reading?	šay'
Dari reading?	šay'
Iranian reading?	šey'
Tajik reading?	šayʾ

Noun

Dari	شیء
Iranian Persian
Tajik	шайъ

شیء • (šey') (plural اشیاء (ašyâ'))

1. (Now obsolete) thing

   Synonym: چیز (čiz)

   • c. 1235, Muḥammad b. Manṣūr b. Saʿīd, آداب الحرب و الشجاعه [Manners of War and Gallantry]:

     بدانکه حرب کردن شیئی تلخست و هرکه اندران عجب آرد و منی خوار ماند.

     bidān ki harb kardan šay'ē talx ast u har ki andar ān ujb ārad u manī xwār mānad.

     Know that waging war is a bitter thing, and whoever brings pride and conceit into it shall be brought low.

     (Classical Persian romanization)

2. (physics, mathematics, computer science, philosophy) object

   شیء فیزیکی ― sey'-e fiziki ― physical object

   شیء ریاضی ― sey'-e riyâzi ― mathematical object

3. (in the plural) good, article, item, commodity

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “شیء”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “شیء”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press