پایتخت
Ottoman Turkish
Descendants
- Crimean Tatar: paytaht
- Turkish: payitaht
- → Armenian: փայիթախտ (pʿayitʿaxt)
Further reading
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “payitaht”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Persian
Etymology
پای (pây, “foot”) + تخت (taxt, “throne”). Eclipsed Arabic derivative دارالسلطنه (dar-ossaltane) and دارالخلافه (dâr-olxalâfe).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /pɑːjˈtaxt/
- (Dari Persian) IPA(key): /pɑːjˈtaxt/
- (Iranian Persian) IPA(key): /pɒːjˈtæxt/
- (Tajik) IPA(key): /pɔjˈtaxt/
Noun
| Dari | پایتخت |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | пойтахт (poytaxt) |
پایتخت • (pâytaxt)
- capital, capital city
- تهران پایتخت ایران است. (more literary) ― tehrân pâytaxt-e irân ast. ― Tehran is the capital of Iran.
- تهرون پایتخت ایرونه. (more colloquial) ― tehrun pâytaxt-e irun-e. ― Tehran is the capital of Iran.
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: paytaxt
- → Bashkir: пайтәхет (paytäxet)
- → Ottoman Turkish: پایتخت (pâyitaht)
- Crimean Tatar: paytaht
- Turkish: payitaht
- → Armenian: փայիթախտ (pʿayitʿaxt)
- Kurdish
- → Central Kurdish: پایتەخت (paytext)
- → Northern Kurdish: paytext
- → Turkmen: paýtagt
- → Uyghur: پايتەخت (paytext)
- → Uzbek: poytaxt
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