قلیان

Persian
یک زن ایرانی در حال کشیدن قلیان.‎

An Iranian woman smoking a hookah.

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Arabic غَلْيُون‎ (ḡalyūn, “smoking pipe”), then hypercorrecting the ending [un] which colloquial Iranian Persian generally puts for trailing /ɒn/, with regard to the vulgar origin of the habit of tobacco smoking, which wrong deduction was also supported by reminiscence of Arabic غَلَيَان‎ (ḡalayān, “boiling”).

Pronunciation
    • (Dari): IPA(key): /qaljɒːn/

    Noun

    قلیان • (qalyân)

    1. hookah
      Synonym: نارگیله‎ (nârgile)

    Inflection
        Possessive forms of قلیان (qalyân)
    singular plural
    1st person
    (“my, our”)    		 قلیانم‎
    (qalyânam)
    [Term?]△
    (qelyunam)    		 قلیانمان‎
    (qalyânemân)
    [Term?]△
    (qelyunemun)
    2nd person
    (“your”)    		 قلیانت‎
    (qalyânat)
    [Term?]△
    (qelyunet)    		 قلیانتان‎
    (qalyânetân)
    [Term?]△
    (qelyunetun)
    3rd person
    (“his, her, its, their”)    		 قلیانش‎
    (qalyânaš)
    [Term?]△
    (qelyuneš)    		 قلیانشان‎
    (qalyânešân)
    [Term?]△
    (qelyunešun)
    △ Colloquial.

    Descendants
    • → Russian: калья́н (kalʹján)

    References
    • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “غليان”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
    • Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864), “غلیان”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume II, Bonn: Adolf Marcus, page 617b
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