پیہن
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Brahui
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- پِیئُن (pīun)
Literally means gold like or golden. Etymologically combination of pī- and the suffix -hun/un for like, like that of. Toda pïn gold(DED.4570) cognate with Tamil பொன்(Poṉ). pī-(gold)+hun(like)
Adjective
[edit]پِیہُن (pīhun)
- white
- silver
- Antonym: خِیسُن (xīsun)
- (figurative) cleared of, done with (with اُسْت (ust) as the subject)
- (euphemistic) blackened, dirty
Derived terms
[edit]- پِیہُنِی (pīhunī, “whiteness”)
- پِیہُن کَنِّنْگ (pīhun kanniṅg, “to whiten, bleach”)
Related terms
[edit]| پِیہُن (pīhun) | کَمَاش (kamāś) | کَرِی (karī), مَہون (mahon), مون (mon) |
| خِیسُن (xīsun) | بور (bor) | پُوشْکُن (pūśkun) |
| خَرُّن (xarrun) | ||
| خَرُّن (xarrun) | ||
Noun
[edit]پِیہُن (pīhun)
Further reading
[edit]https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/burrow_query.py?page=404 Burrow, T., and M. B. Emeneau. A Dravidian etymological dictionary. 2nd ed. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Clarendon Press, 1984. Copyright © 1984 by Oxford University Press 2. University of Madras. Tamil lexicon. [Madras], University of Madras, 1924-1936. The "Errata" included with Tamil lexicon have been applied to the data when this text was converted into a database.
- Bray, Denys (1934) “pīun”, in The Brahui Language[1], Calcutta, India: Superintendent Government Printing, Part II: The Brāhūī Problem; Part III: Etymological Vocabulary, page 240
- Ali, Liaquat, Kobayashi, Masato (2024) “pīhun”, in Brahui Texts: Glossed and Translated Short Stories and Folktales[2], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, page 721
- Delforooz, Behrooz Barjasteh (2020) “pīun”, in “Two Brahui Texts with Glossary and Grammatical Analysis”, in Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies[3], volume 12, number 1, page 117 of 89–122