Persian

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Etymology

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From Middle Persian [script needed] (pʾhlyc /⁠pahrēz⁠/, defence; care). Compare Semnani پهریز (pahriz).[1]

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? parhēz
Dari reading? parhēz
Iranian reading? parhiz
Tajik reading? parhez
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Noun

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Dari پرهیز
Iranian Persian
Tajik парҳез

پرهیز (parhiz)

  1. abstinence, abstaining
  2. medical regimen, diet
  3. fast, fasting
    Synonym: روزه (ruze)
  4. caution

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Bengali: পরহেজ (pôrhez)
  • Uyghur: پەرھىز (perhiz)
  • Pashto: پرهېز (parhéz), پرېز (paréz)

References

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  1. ^ Hosein Tabatabaei, Hasan Tabatabaei, Mohammad Rezaei (2015 August 23) “بررسی و تحلیل نظام آوایی گویش سرکویر در مقایسه با زبان پهلوی [Description of Sarkavir dialect compared with Pahlavi language]”, in Journal of Iranian Regional Languages and Literature[1], volume 5, number 2 (in Persian), pages 105–124
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “pahrēz”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 64
  • Hayyim, Sulayman. New Persian-English dictionary, complete and modern, designed to give the English meanings of over 50,000 words, terms, idioms, and proverbs in the Persian language, as well as the transliteration of the words in English characters. Together with a sufficient treatment of all the grammatical features of the Persian Language. [Teheran, Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim] 1934-1936.