پیس

پیس (pîs)

1. Arabic spelling of pîs (“ugly”)

Borrowed from Persian پیس‎ (pis).

پیس • (pis)

1. leprosy

پیس • (pis)

1. dirty, filthy
2. mean, stingy, miserly

• Turkish: pis
• → Albanian: pis
• → Armenian: փիս (pʿis)

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “پیس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 464
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “پیس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 331

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (pys /⁠pēs⁠/, “mottled, leprous; leper”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ-. Akin to Old Armenian պիսակ (pisak), an Iranian borrowing.

پیس • (pis)

1. leprosy

پیس • (pis)

1. leprous
2. (transferred sense) vile, ignoble

• پیسه‎ (pise)

• → Armenian: փիս (pʿis) (via Turkic)
• → Azerbaijani: pis
• → Georgian: ფისი (pisi)
• → Khalaj: pîs
• → Northern Kurdish: pîs
• → Middle Armenian: փիս (pʿis)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پیس‎ (pis)
  • Turkish: pis
  • → Albanian: pis
  • → Armenian: փիս (pʿis)
• → Pashto: پېس‎ (pes)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “պիսակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 84–85
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, pages 230–231
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 68
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “پیس”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 265