پرچم

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See also: تزحم, ترحم, ترجم, and ت ر ج م

Persian

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Etymology

Early attestations in Persian include Anvārī and Khāqānī from the mid-1100s.

A Wanderwort of unknown origin, but probably immediately borrowed from Oghuz. The Arabic-Turkic dictionary Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, written in 1074, gives (berčem) as the Oghuz word for "the tail of a wild ox that warriors wear on the day of battle," with (bečkem) as the Karakhanid equivalent.[1] Compare Wakhi bičkám (“horse or goat tail”).

The original meaning is "hair on the yak-tail standard", identical to the Turkic meaning. For unclear reasons, this word was promoted over existing words for "flag," including both the Arabic loan علم (alam) and the native word درفش (derafš), during the early twentieth-century language purification reforms.[2] It is now the most common word for "flag".

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? parčam
Dari reading? parčam
Iranian reading? parčam
Tajik reading? parčam

Noun

Dari پرچم
Iranian Persian
Tajik парчам

پرچم • (parčam) (plural پرچم‌ها (parčam-hâ))

  1. flag; banner
    Synonyms: درفش (derafš), بیرق (beyraq), رایت (râyat), علم (alam), لوا (levâ)
    پرچم ایران ― parčam-e irân ― the Iranian flag, the flag of Iran
  2. (obsolete) yak or horse tail hair hung on the tuğ of nomadic armies
    • c. 1180, Anvārī, “Qaṣīda 128”, in دیوان انوری [Dīvān of Anvārī]‎:
      در کوکبهٔ تو طرهٔ شب
      بر نیزهٔ بندگانت پرچم
      dar kawkaba-yi tu turra-yi šab
      bar nēza-yi bandagān-at parčam
      In your triumphal march, the ringlets of night's hair
      Are yak tails on the lances of your servants.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  3. (obsolete, figurative) lock of hair fluttering over the forehead

Descendants

  • → Azerbaijani: pərçəm
  • → Middle Hindi: پرچم (prcm /⁠parcam⁠/)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: پرچم (perçem)

References

  1. ^ Doerfer, Gerhard (1963–1975) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission)‎ (in German), Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag
  2. ^ A. Shapur Shahbazi (January 31, 2012) “FLAGS i. Of Persia”, in Encyclopædia Iranica‎

Urdu

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Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian پَرْچَم (parčam).[1] First attested in c. 1510 as Middle Hindi پرچم (prcm /⁠parcam⁠/).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

پَرْچَم • (parcam) m (Hindi spelling परचम)

  1. flag, banner
    Synonyms: جَھنْڈَا (jhanḍā), لَوَا (lavā)
    پرچم کشائی ― parcam kuśā'ī ― Flag hoisting

Declension

    Declension of پرچم
singular plural
direct پَرْچَم (parcam) پَرْچَم (parcam)
oblique پَرْچَم (parcam) پَرْچَموں (parcamõ)
vocative پَرْچَم (parcam) پَرْچَمو (parcamo)

References

  1. ^ Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Agnieszka (2008) “parcam”, in Perso-Arabic Loanwords in Hindustani, Part 1 Dictionary, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →ISBN, page 675.
  2. ^ “پرچم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Further reading

  • “پرچم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “پرچم”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]
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