پنبه

See also: تنته

Gilaki

Etymology

From Middle Persian pmbk'.

Noun

پنبه (panba)

1. cotton

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پنبه (panbe, “cotton”), itself from Middle Persian pmbk' and thus a doublet of پاموق (pamuk, “cotton”). Only the literal meaning "cotton" is attested up to the early 18^th century, while the meaning "rosy, pink" is attested later and cannot be reliably justified from the colour of cotton (although there are natural colored varieties of cotton, including pink).

Noun

پنبه • (pembe)

1. cotton, the vegetal fibers produced by plants of the genus Gossypium

   Synonyms: پاموق (pamuk), قطن (kutn)

2. (by extension) anything soft, white or unsoiled
3. pink, a color between red and white

Adjective

پنبه • (pembe)

1. pink, having a color between red and white

   Synonyms: گلگون (gülgûn), گل رنگ (gülreng)

Coordinate terms

Colors in Ottoman Turkish · بویا بویلر (boyalar) (layout · text)

آق (ak)	بوز (boz)	قره (kara)
قزل (kızıl); آل (al)	ترنجی (türünci); قوڭور (koñur)	صاری (sarı)
	یشیل (yeşil)
	گوك (gök)	ماوی (mavi)
مور (mor)	افلاطون (eflatun)	پنبه (pembe)

Derived terms

• توز پنبه‌سی (toz pembesi, “very light pink color”)
• پنبه یݣاق (pembe yañak, “rosy cheek”)
• پنبه‌بز (pembebez, “carder of cotton”)
• پنبه‌دار (pembedar, “padded with cotton”)
• پنبه‌ریس (pemberis, “cotton-spinning machine”)
• پنبه‌زار (pembezar, “kind of light shirting material”)
• پنبه‌كن (pembeken, “cotton gin”)
• پنبه‌چول (pembeçul, “kind of light shirting material”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: pembe
• → Armenian: փեմպե (pʻempe)
• →⇒ Laz: ფემბელი (pembeli)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pembe”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3816
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پنبه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 324
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gossipium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 660
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پنبه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 893
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pembe”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پنبه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 453

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian pmbk' (pambag, “cotton”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [pam.ˈba]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäm.bǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäm.bǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰäm.bǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰäm.bǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰæm.bé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäm.bǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	pamba
Dari reading?	pamba
Iranian reading?	pambe
Tajik reading?	pamba

Noun

Dari	پنبه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	панба

پنبه • (panbe) (plural پنبه‌ها (panbe-hâ))

1. cotton

Descendants

• → Armenian: բամբակ (bambak)
• → Arabic: بمبه
• → Central Kurdish: پەمبە (pembe)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پنبه
  • Turkish: pembe
• → Georgian: ბამბა (bamba)
• → Northern Kurdish: pembû
• → Urdu: پنبہ (pamba)
• → Zazaki: peme

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “pambag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press