دیبا

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (dypʾk' /⁠dēbāg⁠/, brocade). Compare the Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian դիպակ (dipak), Classical Syriac ܕܝܒܓܐ (dybgʾ /⁠dēybāḡā⁠/), Arabic دِيبَاج (dībāj).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [d̪eː.bɑː]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [d̪eː.bɑː]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [d̪eː.bɔː]

Readings
Classical reading? dēḇā
Dari reading? dēbā
Iranian reading? dibâ
Tajik reading? debo

Noun

دیبا • (dêbâ)

  1. brocade

Descendants

  • Georgian: დიბა (diba)
  • Ottoman Turkish: دیبا (diba)

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), դիպակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 670ab
  • Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 591, page 132
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 143
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 26
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