سفید

Persian

Alternative forms

  • سپید‎ (sapid, sepid) (literary, poetic)
  • اسپید‎ (espid) (poetic, dialectal)[1]
  • اسفید‎ (esfid), اسبید‎ (esbid)[2][3]

Etymology

From earlier سپید‎ (sapêd), from Middle Persian spyt' (spēd, “white”), from Proto-Iranian *ĉwaytáh (compare Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬀‎ (spaēta, “white”), Sogdian [script needed] (ʾspʾyt)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ĉwaytás (compare Sanskrit श्वेत (śvetá, “white, bright”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweytos (“bright; shine”) (compare Old Church Slavonic свѣтъ (světŭ), Old English hwīt (“white”)).

Borrowed from Iranian: Old Armenian սպիտակ (spitak), սպետ (spet), սպիտ (spit); Old Georgian სპეტაკი (sṗeṭaḳi), სპეტი (sṗeṭi), Georgian სუფთა (supta), Arabic اَسْفِيدَاج‎ (asfīdāj), Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (üstübej).

Pronunciation

Adjective

Dari Persian سفید‎
Iranian Persian سفید‎
Tajiki Persian сафед (safed)

سفید • (sefid)

  1. white
  2. fair
  3. pale
  4. clear

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

Colors in Persian · رنگ‌ها‎ (rang-hâ) (layout · text)
     سفید (sefid)      خاکستری‎ (xâkestari),
توسی‎ (tusi)		      سیاه‎ (siyâh)      قهوه‌ای‎ (qahve'i),
بور‎ (bur)
             صورتى‎ (surati)              سرخ‎ (sorx) ; زرشکی‎ (zereški)              نارنجی‎ (nârenji)              زرد‎ (zard) ; كرم‎ (krem)
             مغزپسته‌ای‎ (mağzpeste'i)              سبز‎ (sabz)                           آبى دريايى‎ (âbi-ye daryâyi) ; سبز دودى‎ (sabz-e dudi)
             لاجوردى‎ (lâjvardi)              آبی‎ (âbi)              بنفش‎ (banafš) ; نيلى‎ (nili)              سرخابى‎ (sorxâbi) ; ارغوانی‎ (arğavâni)

References

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “սպիտակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 264–265
  • Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 708, page 157
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 240
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “spēd”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press

Urdu

Etymology

From Persian سفید‎

Adjective

سفید • (safed) (Hindi spelling सफ़ेद)

  1. white
  2. clean
  3. blank

Derived terms

  • سفیدہ‎
  • سفیدی‎
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