تپانچه

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Persian

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Etymology

Borrowed from Turkic; attested since Farrukhī Sīstānī, early 11th century, in the sense of "slap." The sense of "pistol" is also a semantic loan from Ottoman Turkish طبانجه (tabanca, “pistol”).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? tapānča
Dari reading? tapānča
Iranian reading? tapânče
Tajik reading? tapponča

Noun

تپانچه • (tapânče)

  1. handgun, pistol
  2. (archaic) slap
    Synonym: سیلی (sili)
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 102:
      گه میزنم طپانچه برو گه بسینه سنگ
      در عاشقی جز این نبود دسترس مرا
      gah mēzanam tapānča ba-rō gah ba-sīna sang
      dar āšiqī juz īn na-buwad dastras ma-rā
      Sometimes I slap myself on the face, sometimes I beat my chest with rocks;
      I have no competence in love except for this.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

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