دری

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See also: ذرى, درى, ذري, and دري

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tẹri (“skin”); cognate with Azerbaijani dəri, Bashkir тире (tire), Kazakh тері (terı), Kyrgyz тери (teri), Turkmen deri, Uyghur تېرە (tëre), Uzbek teri and Yakut тирии (tirii).

Noun

دری • (deri)

  1. skin, hide, the outer protective layer of the body
    Synonyms: پوست (post), جلد (cild), قشر (kişr)
  2. leather, a tough material produced from the skin of animals
    Synonyms: جلد (cild), سختیان (sahtiyan), گون (gön)

Descendants

  • Turkish: deri
  • → Armenian: տերի (teri), դա̈րի (däri)

Further reading

Persian

Dari دری
Iranian Persian
Tajik дарӣ

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? darī
Dari reading? darī
Iranian reading? dari
Tajik reading? darī

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian (dłyk' /⁠darīg⁠/, “of the court”). By surface analysis, در (dar, “door, gate”) +‎ ـی (-i).

Originally a more poetic or archaic synonym of فارسی (fârsi, “Persian”), referring to all dialects. It was adopted in the 1900s to refer specifically to the varieties of Persian spoken in Afghanistan.

Proper noun

دری • (dari)

  1. Dari, Dari Persian (Persian as spoken in Afghanistan)
    Hypernym: فارسی (fârsi)
  2. (original sense, now archaic) Synonym of فارسی (fârsi, “the Persian/New Persian language”)
    • c. 1250, Zartusht Bahrām-i Pazhdaw, زراتشت‌نامه [Zarātusht Nāma]:
      ندارد بدین خط کسی دستگاه
      بترسم که گردد بیک ره تباه
      همان به که این را بنظم آوری
      بپاکیزه گفتار و خط دری
      na-dārad bad-ēn xat kasē dastgāh
      bitarsam ki gardad ba yak rāh tabāh
      hamān bih ki ēn rā ba nazm āwarī
      ba pākīza guftār u xat-i darī
      Nobody has the skill to read this (Pahlavi) script,
      I fear that it shall be lost at one stroke.
      Better that you put it to versified lines,
      In a purified speech and a Persian (i.e. Perso-Arabic) script.
      (Classical Persian romanization)

Adjective

دری • (dari)

  1. (obsolete) courtly
    Synonym: درباری (darbâri)

Etymology 2

Adjective

دری • (dari)

  1. (literary) relating to the valley
    Synonym: دره‌ای (darre'i)
    • c. 1030, Manuchehri, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      گویی بط سفید جامه به صابون زده است
      کبک دری ساق پای در قدح خون زده است
      gūyī batt-i safēd jāma ba sābūn zada ast
      kabk-i darī sāq-i pāy dar qadah-i xūn zada ast
      You would say the white duck has washed its robes with soap,
      That the valley partridge has dipped its feet in a cup of blood.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
Related terms

Saraiki

Pronunciation

Noun

دَری (darī) f

  1. window

Urdu

Pronunciation

Noun

دُری • (durī) f (Hindi spelling दुरी)

  1. a big bright star

References

  • “دری”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “دری”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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