برهنه

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian bl(ʾ)hnk' (brahnag)[1][2], from Proto-Iranian *bagnákah, with secondary -r-, from Proto-Iranian *bagná (naked)[3], from Proto-Indo-Iranian *nagnás, from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (naked); see there for further information.

Pronunciation

  • (Dari): IPA(key): /ba ɾahna/

Adjective

Dari برهنه
Iranian Persian
Tajik бараҳна (barahna)

برهنه (berahne)

  1. bare, naked, nude
    Synonyms: لخت (loxt), عریان (oryân)
    دیروز یک زن برهنه دیدم.
    Diruz yek zan-e berahne didam. (more literary)
    دیرو یه زن برهنه دیدم.
    Diru ye zan-e berahne didam. (more colloquial)
    I saw a naked woman yesterday.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Urdu: برہنہ (barahna)

References

  1. Bailey, H. W. (1967) Prolexis to the Book of Zambasta (Indo-Scythian Studies Being Khotanese Texts; 6), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 256
  2. MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 19
  3. Čong (Cheung), Dž. (2009), T. K. Salbijeva, transl., Očerki istoričeskovo razvitija osetinskovo vokalizma [Studies in the Historical Development of the Ossetic Vocalism] (in Russian), Vladikavkaz: Izdatelʹsko-poligrafičeskoje predprijatije im. V. Gassijeva, →ISBN, page 41
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