پرخاش

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پرخاش (parxāš, “combat, fight”).

Noun

پرخاش • (perhaş)

1. fight, dispute, combat, melee

   Synonyms: جنك (cenk), صاواش (savaş)

2. quarrel, altercation, heated argument

   Synonyms: چكیش (çekiş), غوغا (ğavğa), نزاع (nizaʿ)

Derived terms

• پرخاشجو (perhaşcu, “pugnacious”)
• پرخاشجی (perhaşcı, “pugnacious man”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: perhaş

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “perhaş”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3827
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پرخاش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 318
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پرخاش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 758
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “perçin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پرخاش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 440

Persian

Etymology

From a prefixed form of Proto-Iranian *xāz- (“to fight; to struggle”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [paɾ.ˈxɑːʃ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäɾ.xɑ́ːʃ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäɾ.xɑ́ːʃ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰäɾ.xɑ́ːʃ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰäɾ.xɔ́ːʃ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰæɹ.xɒ́ːʃ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäɾ.χɔ́ʃ]

Readings
Classical reading?	parxāš
Dari reading?	parxāš
Iranian reading?	parxâš
Tajik reading?	parxoš

Noun

پرخاش • (parxâš)

1. (verbal) quarrel, dispute, argument

   Synonyms: جدال (jedâl), مجادله (mojâdele)

2. (obsolete) battle

   Synonyms: جنگ (jang), نبرد (nabard), رزم (razm)

   • c. 1011, Abu'l-Qāsim Firdawsī, “The Tale of Rustam and Isfandiyār”, in شاهنامه [Book of Kings]‎^[4]:

     به تنها تن خویش جستم نبرد
     به پرخاش تیمار من کس نخورد

     ba tanhā tan-i xwēš justam nabard
     ba parxāš tēmār⁠-i man kas na-xward

     I sought out battle by myself,
     Nobody shared my grief in the fight.

     (Classical Persian romanization)

Descendants

• → Gujarati: પરખાશ (parkhāś)