پیمان

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ptmʾn' /⁠paymān⁠/, “measure, period; moderation; treaty”), ultimately from *pati- and *maH- (“to measure”). Related to the verb پیمودن (peymudan, “to measure”). Compare the Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian պայման (payman), Old Georgian პაემანი (ṗaemani), Arabic فَيْمَان (faymān).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [paj.ˈmɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäj.mɑ́ːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäj.mɑ́ːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰäj.mɑ́ːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰäj.mɔ́ːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pej.mɒ́ːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäj.mɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading?	paymān
Dari reading?	paymān
Iranian reading?	peymân
Tajik reading?	paymon

Noun

Dari	پیمان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	паймон

پیمان • (peymân) (plural پیمان‌ها (peymân-hâ))

1. pledge
2. pact
3. agreement
4. contract

Derived terms

• هم‌پیمان (ham-peymân)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: peyman
• → Ottoman Turkish: پیمان (peyman)
  • Turkish: peyman
• → Turkmen: peýman
• → Urdu: پیمان (paimān)
• → Uzbek: paymon

Proper noun

Dari	پیمان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	Паймон

پیمان • (peymân)

1. a male given name, Payman, Peyman, or Paymon.
   

Further reading

• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 220

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian پیمان (paymān).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pɛː.mɑːn/

Noun

پیمان • (paimān) m (Hindi spelling पैमान)

1. measuring
2. agreement, compact, convention, treaty, stipulation, pledge, promise; security; confirmation; asseveration, oath

Further reading

• “پیمان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “پيمان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.