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پاک
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Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (pʾk' /pāk/, “clean, pure, holy”), from Proto-Iranian *pawHākáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pawHākás, from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to cleanse, purify”). Cognate with Sanskrit पावक (pāvaká, “pure, clean, clear”), Latin purus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /paːk/
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [pʰɒːkʲ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [pʰɔk]
Adjective
پاک • (pâk)
- clean, pure
- innocent, clean-handed, sinless
- holy
- (dialectal) all
- پاک مردم رفتنه.
- (dialectal) every
- (dialectal) everyone
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Assamese: পাক (pak)
- → Azerbaijani: pak
- → Bengali: পাক (pak)
- → Gujarati: પાક (pāk)
- → Old Hindi: पाक (pāka)
- → Maithili: pāk
- Devanagari script: पाक
- Tirhuta script: 𑒣𑒰𑒏
- → Old Punjabi: ਪਾਕੁ (pāku)
- → Sindhi:
- Arabic script: پاڪُ
- Devanagari script: पाकु
- → Sylheti: ꠙꠣꠇ (fax)
- → Ottoman Turkish: پاك (pak)
- → Uyghur: پاك (pak)
- → Uzbek: pok
References
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “pāk”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 64.
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