پیس

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Adjective

پیس (pîs)

  1. Arabic spelling of pîs (ugly)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پیس (pis, leprosy), from Middle Persian (pys /⁠pēs⁠/, mottled, leprous; leprosy).

Noun

پیس (pis)

  1. leprosy, an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae
    Synonym: جذام (cüzam)

Adjective

پیس (pis)

  1. leprous, relating to or infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy
    Synonym: آلاجه (alaca)
  2. (by extension) dirty, filthy, soiled, covered with or containing dirt or grime
    Synonym: مردار (murdar)
  3. (by extension) mean, stingy, miserly, unwilling to spend, give, or share

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: pis
  • Albanian: pis
  • Armenian: փիս (pʻis)

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian (pys /⁠pēs⁠/, mottled, leprous; leper), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ-. Akin to Old Armenian պիսակ (pisak), an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? pēs
Dari reading? pēs
Iranian reading? pis
Tajik reading? pes

Noun

پیس (pis)

  1. leprosy

Adjective

پیس (pis)

  1. leprous
  2. (transferred sense) vile, ignoble

Descendants

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