برای

Khalaj

Postposition

بَرایِ (bərâyı)

1. Arabic spelling of bərâyı (“because of, towards”)

Persian

Alternative forms

• برا (barâ) (informal, usually in compounds with enclitic pronouns)
• بری (barey) (dialectal, Shiraz)

Etymology

From a grammaticalized phrase in Middle Iranian, *pad rāy (“(literally) for the thing”), itself composed of Proto-Iranian *pati- (“for, towards, against”) + *rādi- (“reason, thing”), the latter a lexicalization of the locative singular of Proto-Iranian *rād-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HraHdʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₁dʰ- (“to think, arrange, accomplish”). By surface analysis, به (be, “for”) +‎ رای (rây, “reason”) +‎ ـِ (-e, “ezafe”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ba.ˈɾɑː.ji]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bä.ɾɑ́ː.jɪ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bä.ɾɑ́ː.jɪ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [bä.ɾǽ.jɪ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bä.ɾɔ́ː.ji]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bæ.ɹɒ́ː.je]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bä.ɾɔ́.ji]

Readings
Classical reading?	barāyi
Dari reading?	barāyi
Iranian reading?	barâye
Tajik reading?	baroyi

Preposition

Dari	برای
Iranian Persian
Tajik	барои

برای • (barây-e)

1. for
2. in order to

Derived terms

• برای این‌که (barây-e in-ke, “because”)
• برای چه (barây-e če, “why”)

Descendants

• → Khalaj: bərâyı
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਬਰਾਏ (barāē)

  Shahmukhi script: براے (barāē)

• Urdu: بَرائے (barāe)