برهنه

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian bl(ʾ)hnk' (brahnag)[1][2], from Proto-Iranian *bagna-ka- with secondary -r-, from *bagna- (naked)[3], from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (naked); see there for more.

Pronunciation

Adjective

Dari Persian برهنه
Iranian Persian برهنه
Tajiki Persian бараҳна (barahna)

برهنه (berahne)

  1. bare, naked, nude
    دیروز یک زن برهنه دیدم.
    Diruz yek zan-e berahne didam. (more literary)
    دیرو یه زن برهنه دیدم.
    Diru ye zan-e berahne didam. (more colloquial)
    I saw a naked woman yesterday.
    Synonyms: عریان, لخت

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. H. W. Baily, Indo-Scythian Studies (Khotanese Texts - volume VI), Cambridge University Press, 1967, Page 256
  2. MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 19
  3. Čong (Cheung), Dž. (2009) Očerki istoričeskovo razvitija osetinskovo vokalizma [Studies in the Historical Development of the Ossetic Vocalism] (in Russian), Translated into Russian from the 2002 English original by Salbiev T. K., Vladikavkaz: Izdatelʹsko-poligrafičeskoje predprijatije im. V. Gassijeva, page 41
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