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Persian
Etymology
From چال (čâl, seemingly a variant of چل (čal), present stem of چلیدن (čalidan, “to walk, to go”)) + ـش (-eš). The modern sense of "challenge" is not found in Steingass, and the word in general seems quite rare in classical sources. The modern meaning may be a phono-semantic matching of English challenge or some other European language. Compare تنش (taneš, “tension”)
Pronunciation
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| Classical reading?
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čāliš
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| Dari reading?
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čāliš
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| Iranian reading?
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čâleš
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| Tajik reading?
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čoliš
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Noun
چالش • (čâleš)
- challenge, struggle
- (archaic) exertion in battle; martial conduct; (loosely) battle
1188, Niẓāmī Ganjavī, اسکندرنامه [Iskandarnāma]:بفرمود شه تا دلیران روم
نمایند چالش در آن مرز و بوم- bifarmūd šah tā dalērān-i rūm
nimāyand čāliš dar ān marz u būm - The king ordered that the brave men of Rome
Should display their martial gait in that borderland and country.
- (obsolete, original sense) proud and sauntering gait
Derived terms
- چالشی (čâleši, “challenging”)
References
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “چالش”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
- Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 260