پیشانی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پیشانی (pišâni, “forehead”).

Noun

پیشانی • (pişanî)

1. forehead, the part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline

   Synonyms: آلن (alın), جبین (cebin)

2. (figuratively) impudence, insolence, cheek, the quality of not showing respect

Derived terms

• پیشانی بند (pişanî bend, “fillet bound over the forehead”)
• پیشانی دار (pişanî dar, “brazen-faced”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: pişanî

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pişanî”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3864
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “pişanî”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1039
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Frons”, 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 618
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پیشانی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 991
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پیشانی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 464

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [peː.ʃɑː.ˈniː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰeː.ʃɑː.níː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰeː.ʃɑː.níː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰeː.ʃɑː.níː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰeː.ʃɔː.ní]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰiː.ʃɒː.níː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰe.ʃɔ.ní]

Readings
Classical reading?	pēšānī
Dari reading?	pēšānī
Iranian reading?	pišâni
Tajik reading?	pešoni

Noun

پیشانی • (pišâni)

1. forehead

Descendants

• → Bengali: পেশানী (peśani)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پیشانی (pişanî)
  • Turkish: pişanî