تشنه

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See also: تشنہ

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian (tyšnk' /⁠tišnag⁠/), from Old Persian, from Proto-Iranian *tŕ̥šnakah, from Proto-Iranian *tŕ̥šnah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tŕ̥šnas, from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥s-nó-s, from *ters- (dry).

Compare Avestan 𐬙𐬀𐬭𐬱𐬥𐬀 (taršna), Sanskrit तृष्णा (tṛṣṇā), Ancient Greek τέρσομαι (térsomai), Latin terra, Old Armenian թառամիմ (tʻaṙamim), English thirst.

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? tišna
Dari reading? tišna, tašna
Iranian reading? tešne
Tajik reading? tašna

Adjective

Dari تشنه
Iranian Persian
Tajik ташна

تشنه (tešne)

  1. thirsty
    تشنه هستم. (literary)tešne hastam.I am thirsty.
    تشنمه. (colloquial Iranian)tešna-m-e.I'm thirsty.
  2. in drought
  3. (figurative) eager, desiring
    تشنه آزادیtešne-ye âzâdithirsty for freedom

Usage notes

  • In colloquial Iranian, "to be thirsty" is expressed with an enclitic pronoun attached to تشنه, then followed by ـه (-e, is), as in the usage example above.

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: təşnə
  • Hindustani:
  • Ottoman Turkish: تشنه (teşne)

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