پا

See also: با, تا, and Appendix:Variations of "pa"

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پا (pa).

Noun

پا • (pa)

1. the foot
2. the leg
3. a hind-leg in a quadruped
4. a foundation, base, pedestal, leg, lower part of various inanimate things; also, the stern of a ship or boat
5. power; firmness, durability, constancy
6. a footing
7. a footstep, trace, vestige
8. a pretext, excuse, assigned cause

Related terms

• پاجامه (pacame)

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 428

Persian

Etymology 1

From earlier پای (pây), from Middle Persian [script needed] (pāy), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎭 (pād(a)), from Proto-Iranian *pā́dah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pā́ts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds (“foot”).

Alternative forms

• پای (pây) (archaic)
• پو (pow) (dialectal, Sistan)

پاهای یک مرد ― pâ-hâ-ye yek mard ― A man's legs and feet

Pronunciation

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

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɑː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɑː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰɑː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰɔː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɒː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɔ]

Readings
Classical reading?	pā
Dari reading?	pā
Iranian reading?	pâ
Tajik reading?	po

Noun

Dari	پا
Iranian Persian
Tajik	по

پا • (pâ) (plural پاها (pâ-hâ))

1. leg
2. foot
   • 2006, Black Cats, جون خودت:

     ببين چطور دلم افتاده به پات

     bebin četor delam âftâde be pât
     Look how my heart fell to your feet

3. limb

Derived terms

nouns

• انگشتِ پا (angošt-e pâ, “toe”)
• تیپا (tip(p)â, “a kick with the tip of the foot”)
• جاپا (jâ-pâ, “ford”)
• خرپا (xar-pâ, “truss”)
• دمپایی (dampâyi, “slipper”)
• ردِّ پا (redd-e pâ, “footprint”)
• روپایی (rupâyi, “keepie-uppie”)
• زیرپایی (zirpâyi, “footrest”)
• سرپایان (sarpâyân, “cephalopods”)
• سنگِ پا (sang-e pâ, “pumice”, literally “foot stone”)
• شستِ پا (šast-e pâ, “big toe”)
• صدپا (sad-pâ, “centipede”)
• لاپایی (lâpâyi, “intercrural sex”)
• مچ پا (moč-e pâ, “ankle”)
• هزارپا (hezâr-pâ, “millipede”)
• هشت‌پا (hašt-pâ, “octopus”)
• همپا (ham-pâ, “companion”)
• پابوسی (pâ-busi, “pilgrimage”, literally “foot kissing”)
• پادرمیانی (pâ-dar-miyâni, “intervention”)
• پادری (pâdari, “welcome mat”)
• پادو (pâdo, “lackey”)
• پاشنه‌یِ پا (pâšne-ye pâ, “heel”)
• پاقدم (pâ-qadam, “auspice”)
• پاچه (pâče, pâčče, “totters, trousers”)
• پاگشا (pâ-gošâ, “Pagosha, a reception party for newlyweds”)
• پایتخت (pâytaxt, “capital city”)
• پایمردی (pâymardi, “perseverance”)
• پایه (pâye, “pod, basis, foundation”)
• پایکوبی (pâykubi, “dancing and hopping”)
• پایگاه (pây(e)gâh, “base, headquarter”)
• پشتِ پا (pošt-e pâ, “spurn”)
• کفِ پا (kaf-e pâ, “sole”)

adjectives and adverbs

• بی‌دست‌و‌پا (bi-dast-o-pâ, “clumsy”)
• بی‌سر‌و‌پا (bi-sar-o-pâ, “hobo”)
• تیزپا (tiz-pâ, “swift”)
• خرده‌پا (xorde-pâ, “with a small capital, ordinary”)
• دست‌وپاگیر (dast-o-pâ-gir, “unwieldy, restrictive”)
• دست‌و‌پا‌شکسته (dast-o-pâ šekaste, “broken (of a language)”)
• دست‌و‌پا‌چلفتی (dast-o-pâ čolofti, “clumsy”)
• دست‌پاچه (dast-pâče, “flustered”)
• سرِپا (sare-pâ, “standing, healthy and youthful”)
• سه‌پایه (se-pâye, “tripod”)
• پابرجا (pâbarjâ, “standing, enduring, existing”)
• پابه‌سن‌گذاشته (pâ-be-sen gozâšte, “aged, senior”)
• پابه‌ماه (pâ-be-mâh, “pregnant, in the family way”)
• پابه‌پا (pâ-be-pâ, “shoulder to shoulder”)
• پاخورده (pâ xorde, “stepped on”)
• پادار (pâdâr, “legged”)
• پاسوز (pâsuz, “loyal and devoted despite predicaments”)
• پاپِی (pâpey, “pushy, persistent”)
• پاپیچ (pâ-pič, “puttee, insistent, bothersome”)
• پاگیر (pâ dadan, “settled down”)
• پایدار (pâydâr, “stable”)
• پایمال (pâymâl, “trampled”)
• پاینده (pâyande, “lasting”)
• پایور (pâyvar, “persistent”)
• پیش‌ِپااُفتاده (piš-e pâ oftâde, “trivial”)
• چهارپا (čahâr-pâ, “quadruped”)
• کلّه‌پا (kalle-pâ, “stumbled, upside down”)
• گل‌پا (gol-pâ, “gardener, auspicious”)

verbs

• آتش به پا کردن (âtaš be pâ kardan, “to set on fire, to arson”)
• این پا اون پا کردن (in-pâ-'un-pâ kardan, “to beat around the bush”)
• دست و پا زدن (dast-o-pâ zadan, “to struggle”)
• زیرِ پا گذشتن (zir-e pâ gozaštan, “to trample, to violate”)
• پا دادن (pâ dâdan, “to agree to hook up”)
• پا زدن (pâ zadan, “to cycle, to bike”)
• پا شدن (pâ šodan, “to get up”)
• پا پیش گذاشتن (pâ piš gozâštan, “to take the initiative”)
• پا گرفتن (pâ gereftan, “to gain strength”)

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: پا (pa)
• → Urdu: پا (pā)

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• پی (pey, poy) (dialectal, Khesht, Konartakhteh, Dashtestan) (used only when not followed by possessive suffixes)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɒː/

Preposition

پا • (pâ)

1. (dialectal, Khesht, Konartakhteh, Dashtestan) (used only when followed by possessive suffixes) with

Southern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *pā́dah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pā́das, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds (“foot”).

Noun

پا (pā)

1. (anatomy) leg

Urdu

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Persian پا (pâ).

Noun

پا • (pā) m

1. foot

   Synonym: پاؤں (pāũ)

2. leg

Related terms

• پاجامَہ (pājāma)

Further reading

• Platts, John T. (1884) “پا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

Etymology 2

Verb

پا • (pā) (Hindi spelling पा)

1. inflection of پانا (pānā):
   1. stem
   2. second-person singular intimate present imperative

Further reading

• Platts, John T. (1884) “پا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.