Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Iranian Persian پَشیمان (pašimân).

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  • IPA(key): /peʃiːˈmaːn/, (vulgar) /piʃˈman/

Noun

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پشیمان (peşiman)

  1. regretful, remorseful, sorry
    Synonym: نادم (nadim)
    پشیمان اولمقpeşiman olmakto regret

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Persian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (pšymʾn' /⁠pašēmān⁠/, penitent, repentant). Akin to Old Armenian փաշաման (pʻašaman), a Middle Iranian borrowing.

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Readings
Classical reading? pašēmān
Dari reading? pašēmān
Iranian reading? pašimân
Tajik reading? pašemon

Adjective

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Dari پشیمان
Iranian Persian
Tajik пашемон

پشیمان (pašimân) (comparative پشیمان‌تَر (pašimân-tar), superlative پشیمان‌تَرین (pašimân-tarin))

  1. regretful, sorry, penitent
    • 1010, Ferdowsi, شاهنامه [Shahnameh]:
      سپهبد پشیمان شد از کار اوی
      بپیچید ازان راست گفتار اوی
      sipahbud pašēmān šud az kār-i ōy
      bipēčīd az ān rāst guftār-i ōy
      The general became penitent from those deeds of his;
      He writhed [from shame] at those righteous words of his.
      (romanization in Classical Persian)

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References

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  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “փաշաման”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 481a