پهلو

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian (pahlû, “side, flank”).

Noun

پهلو • (pehlu)

side, flank, the flesh between the last rib and the hip
Synonym: بوگور (böğür)
(military) flank, the extreme left or right edge of an army

Derived terms

پهلو به پهلو (pehlu be pehlu, “side by side”)

Descendants

Turkish: pehlu

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pehlu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3810
Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “pehlû”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1025
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پهلو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 329
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pectus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1258
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پهلو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 960
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پهلو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 461

Persian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle Persian (pʾhlwk' /⁠pahlūg⁠/), from Old Persian *parθukah, suffixed from Proto-Iranian *párcuš (“rib”). Compare Northern Kurdish parsû (“side”), Sanskrit पर्शु (parśu, “rib”), Russian пе́рси (pérsi, “bosom”).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading^?	pahlū
Dari reading^?	pahlū
Iranian reading^?	pahlu
Tajik reading^?	pahlu

Noun

پهلو • (pahlu)

side; flank (of the body)
Synonyms: کنار (kenâr), بغل (bağal)
side; beside
Synonyms: کنار (kenâr), جنب (janb)
(military) flank (of an army)
(geometry) side
Synonym: ضلع (zel')

Derived terms

پهلو به پهلو (pahlu be pahlu, “side by side”)
پهلو زدن (pahlu zadan, “to emulate; to vie”)

Descendants

→ Hindustani:
Hindi: पहलू (pahlū), पहल (pahal)

Urdu: پہلو (pahlū), پہل (pahal)
→ Ottoman Turkish: پهلو (pehlû)
- Turkish: pehlu

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle Persian (/⁠pahlaw⁠/), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎼𐎰𐎺 (p-r-θ-v /⁠parθavaʰ⁠/, “Parthian”); see there for more.

Pronunciation

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Classical reading^?	pahlaw
Dari reading^?	pahlaw
Iranian reading^?	pahlow
Tajik reading^?	pahlav

Noun

پهلو • (pahlow)

Obsolete form of (pahlavân, “hero, champion”).

References

^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2020) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 6, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 198

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