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Munji
Noun
دریا (daryā )
river
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Persian دریا ( daryâ ) .
Noun
دریا • (derya )
( geography ) river
Synonym: ایرماق ( ırmaq )
( geography ) sea
Synonym: دݣز ( deŋiz )
Proper noun
دریا • (Derya )
a female given name , Derya , Darya
References
Redhouse, J. W. (1884 ) “sea”, in A Lexicon, English and Turkish , 3rd edition, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 667
Persian
دریا
Etymology
From Middle Persian ( dlydʾp̄ /drayāb/ , “ sea ” ) , a merger of āb ( “ water ” ) (whence آب ( āb ) ) with Old Persian 𐎭𐎼𐎹 ( d-r-y /draya/ , “ ocean, sea ” ) , from Proto-Iranian *jráyah , from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ráyas , likely from the BMAC substrate . Cognate with Northern Kurdish zrê , zerya ( “ sea ” ) , Avestan 𐬰𐬭𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬢𐬵 ( zraiiaŋh , “ sea ” ) , Sanskrit ज्रयस् ( jráyas , “ expanse ” ) .
Pronunciation
Readings
Classical reading?
daryā
Dari reading?
daryā
Iranian reading?
daryâ
Tajik reading?
daryo
Noun
Dari
دریا
Iranian Persian
Tajik
дарё
دَرْیا • (daryâ ) (plural دریاها ( daryâ-hâ ) )
sea ; ocean
Synonyms: اُقْیانوس ( oqyânus , “ ocean ” ) , بَحْر ( bahr , “ sea ” ) , زِراه ( zerâh , “ sea, ocean ” )
در کنار دریا ― dar kenâr-e daryâ ― on the sea shore
دریا در چرخه آب نقش دارد.daryâ dar čarxe-ye âb naqš dârad.The ocean plays a role in the water cycle.
c. 1320 , Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī , “Ghazal 3”, in دیوانِ امیرخسرو دهلوی [Divan of Amīr Khusraw ] :ز عشق ار عاشقی میرد، گنه بر عشق ننهد کس که بهر غرقه کردن عیب نتوان کرد دریا را zi išq ar āšiqē mīrad gunah bar išq na-nihad kas ki bahr-i ğarqa kardan ayb na-tawan kard daryā rā If the lover dies of love, nobody holds love accountable, For one does not blame the sea when a person drowns.
mid-1600s , Ṣāʾib-i Tabrīzī , “Ghazal 1012”, in دیوان [Dīvān ] :با کمال احتیاج از خلق استغنا خوش است با دهان خشک مردن بر لب دریا خوش است bā kamāl-i ihtiyāj az xalq istiğnā xwaš ast bā dahān-i xušk mordan bar lab-i daryā xwaš ast To disdain people’s help at the utmost height of neediness is fitting; To die with a dry mouth at the shore of the ocean is fitting.
( obsolete or fossilized) river
Synonyms: رود ( rud ) , رودْخانِه ( rudxâne ) , نَهْر ( nahr )
آمو دریا ― âmu daryâ ― the River Oxus
c. 1011 , Abu'l-Qāsim Firdawsī , “The Tale of Rustam and Isfandiyār”, in شاهنامه [Book of Kings ] :بدو گفت چون رستم پیلتن ندیده بود کس بهر انجمن دل شیر دارد تن ژنده پیل نهنگان برآرد ز دریا ی نیل bad-ō guft čōn rustam-i pīltan na-dīda būd kas ba har anjuman dil-i šēr dārad tan-i žanda pīl nahangān bar-ārad zi daryā -yi nīl He told him, "The elephant-bodied Rustam's like Has not been seen by anyone in any tribe. He has a lion's heart and a huge elephant's body, And he drags out the crocodiles from the River Nile."
Derived terms
Borrowed terms
→ Assamese: দৰিয়া ( doria )
→ Azerbaijani: dərya
→ Bengali: দরিয়া ( doriẏa )
→ Gujarati: દરિયો ( dariyo )
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: दर्या ( daryā )
Urdu: دَرْیا ( daryā )
→ Kashmiri: دریا ( dryā )
→ Kazakh:
Arabic script: داريا , دايرا
Cyrillic script: дария ( dariä ) , дайра ( daira )
→ Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: derya , derîya , deriya
Central Kurdish: دەریا ( derya )
→ Kyrgyz: дарыя ( darıya )
→ Ottoman Turkish: دریا ( deryâ )
→ Pashto: درياب ( daryā́b , “ sea; lake ” )
→ Punjabi:
Gurmukhi script: ਦਰਿਆ ( dariā )
Shahmukhi script: دریا ( daryā )
→ Talysh:
Central Talysh, Southern Talysh: دریا ( daryā )
Northern Talysh: dərya ( daryā )
→ Turkmen: derýa
→ Uyghur: دەريا ( derya )
→ Uzbek: daryo
Proper noun
دَرْیا • (daryâ )
a female given name , Darya , from Middle Persian
Descendants
References
MacKenzie, D. N. (1971 ) “drayā(b)”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary , London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
Punjabi
Etymology
From Classical Persian دریا ( daryā ) .
Noun
دریا • (daryā ) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਦਰਿਆ )
( geography ) river
Synonyms
Urdu
Etymology
From Classical Persian دریا ( daryā , “ sea, river ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
دَرْیا • (daryā ) m (Hindi spelling दर्या )
river
Synonyms: رُود ( rūd ) , نَدی ( nadī )
وہ دریا کنارے کھڑی ہے vo daryā kināre khaṛī hai she is standing at the bank of the river
( literary ) sea
Synonyms: سَمَنْدَر ( samandar ) , ساگَر ( sāgar )
Derived terms