بیرون

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian bylwn' (bērōn, “outside”), synchronically analyzable as by-, BRA (bē, “out, but”) +‎ lwn (rōn, “direction, yearning”). The former part can be seen in other New Persian compounds such as بیگانه (bēgāna, “outsider, foreigner”) and بیگار (bēgār, “corvee, forced labour”). The latter component is from Proto-Iranian *raun(a)- (“direction, yearning”), from Proto-Iranian *hraw- (“to stream, flow”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sraw- (“to stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to stream, flow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [beː.ˈɾuːn], [biː.ˈɾuːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [biː.ɾúːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [biː.ɾúːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [beː.ɾúːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bu.ɾún]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [biː.ɹúːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [be.ɾún]

Readings
Classical reading?	bērūn, bīrūn
Dari reading?	bīrūn
Iranian reading?	birun
Tajik reading?	berun

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Noun

Dari	بیرون
Iranian Persian
Tajik	берун

بیرون • (birun)

1. the outside
   • c. 1260, Rumi, “5:3846”, in The Masnavi:

     من روم بیرون شهر

     man ravam birun-e šahr

     I go outside of the city

Preposition

بیرون • (birun)

1. outside, out
   • c. 1260, Rumi, “2:1943”, in The Masnavi:

     پنبه‌ی وسواس بیرون کن ز گوش، تا به گوشت آید از گردون خروش

     panbe-ye vasvâs birun kon ze guš, tâ be guš-at âyad az gardun xoruš

     take the cotton of whispers [of temptation] out from your ear, so the shouts from Heaven may enter your ears

Derived terms

• بیرون زدن (birun zadan, “to project, to come out”)

Related terms

• بیرونی (biruni, “external”)