प्रिय

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit प्रिय (priya).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /pɾɪ.jᵊ/,

प्रिय • (priya) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling پریہ)

1. dear
2. favorite
3. loving
4. pleasant
5. comfortable

प्रिय • (priya) m (Urdu spelling پریہ)

1. dear
2. sweetheart

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *priHás (“dear, beloved”), from Proto-Indo-European *priHós (“dear, liked, beloved”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬟𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀 (friia), Latin prō-prius (→ English proper, appropriate), Russian приятель (prijatelʹ, “friend”), English friend and free.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /pɾi.jɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾi.jɐ/

प्रिय • (priyá) stem (comparative प्रेयस्, प्रियतर, superlative प्रेष्ठ, प्रियतम)

1. beloved, dear to (with locative or genitive or dative of the subject or in compounds)
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.114.7:

     मा नो महान्तमुत मा नो अर्भकं मा न उक्षन्तमुत मा न उक्षितम् ।
     मा नो वधीः पितरं मोत मातरं मा नः प्रियास्तन्वो रुद्र रीरिषः ॥

     mā no mahāntamuta mā no arbhakaṃ mā na ukṣantamuta mā na ukṣitam.
     mā no vadhīḥ pitaraṃ mota mātaraṃ mā naḥ priyāstanvo rudra rīriṣaḥ.

     O Rudra, harm not either great or small of us, harm not the growing boy, harm not the full-grown man.
     Slay not a sire among us, slay no mother here, and do not harm our own dear bodies, O Rudra.

2. liked, favorite, wonted, own
3. fond of, attached to
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda

• Bengali: প্রিয় (priẏo)
• Ardhamagadhi Prakrit: 𑀧𑀺𑀬 (piya)
  • Awadhi: पिया (piyā)
• Dardic:
  • Kashmiri: (piye)
• Helu Prakrit:
  • Sinhalese: පිය (piya)
• Magadhi Prakrit: 𑀧𑀺𑀬 (piya)
  • Bengali: পিয়া (piẏa)
  • Bihari: पिया (piyā)
    • Maithili: पिआ (piā)
    • Bhojpuri: पिया (piyā)
• Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀧𑀺𑀬 (piya)
  • Marathi: पियो (piyo)
• Paisaci Prakrit:
  • Sindhi: pirī

    Arabic: پري

    Devanagari: पिरी

• Pali: piya
• Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀧𑀺𑀬 (piya)
  • Gujarati: પિયુ (piyu)
  • Hindustani:

    Hindi: पिया (piyā)

    Urdu: پیا (piyā)

    • → Punjabi: ਪੀਆ (pīā)
  • → Malay: peria
    • Indonesian: pria

• → Hindi: प्रिय (priya)
• → Telugu: ప్రియము (priyamu)

• Monier Williams (1899) “प्रिय”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 710/1.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 189-190
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “priyá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press