چهره

See also: چہرہ‎

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐭰𐭧𐭫𐭪𐭩‎ (čihrag), from Old Persian *čiθrakaʰ, from Proto-Iranian *čiθrákah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čitrám, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷi-tróm, from *kʷey- (“bright, burning”).[1] Cognate with Sanskrit चित्र (citra). Baluchi چِهرَگ (Čihrag, "countenance, face")

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /t͡ʃihɾa/

(Dari): IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɪhɾa/

(Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /t͡ʃehɾe/
(Tajik): IPA^(key): /t͡ʃehɾa/

Iranian Persian	چهره
Dari	چهره
Tajik	чеҳра (čehra)

Noun

چهره • (čehre) (plural چهره‌ها‎ (čehre-hâ))

visage
face

Descendants

→ Assamese: চেহেৰা (sehera)
→ Azerbaijani: çöhrə
→ Bengali: চেহারা (cehara)
→ Gujarati: ચહેરો (cahero)
→ Hindustani:
- Hindi: चेहरा (cehrā)
- Urdu: چہرہ‎ (cehra, cihra)
→ Punjabi:
Gurmukhi script: ਚਿਹਰਾ (cihrā)

Shahmukhi script: چہرہ‎ (cihra)
→ Ottoman Turkish: چهره‎ (çehre)
- Turkish: çehre
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: чехра
  
  Latin script: čehra
→ Uyghur: چىراي‎ (chiray)
→ Uzbek: chehra

See also

صورت‎ (surat)

References

Morgenstierne, Georg (2003), “cargˈand”, in Elfenbein, J.; MacKenzie, D. N.; Sims-Williams, Nicholas, editors, A New Etymological Vocabulary of Pashto (Beitrage Zur Iranistik; 23), Weisbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert, →ISBN

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