پیس

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (pys /pēs/, “mottled, leprous; leper”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ-. Akin to Old Armenian պիսակ (pisak), an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /peːs/

(Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /peːs/

(Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /piːs/

(Tajik) IPA^(key): /pes/

Noun

پیس • (pis)

leprosy

Adjective

پیس • (pis)

leprous
(transferred sense) vile, ignoble

Related terms

پیسه‎ (pise)

Descendants

→ Armenian: փիս (pʿis) (via Turkic)
→ Azerbaijani: pis
→ Georgian: ფისი (pisi)
→ Northern Kurdish: pîs
→ Middle Armenian: փիս (pʿis)
→ Ottoman Turkish: پیس‎ (pis)
- Turkish: pis
→ Pashto: پېس‎ (pes)

References

Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “պիսակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 84–85
Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, pages 230–231
MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 68
Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “پیس”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 265

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