تپانچه

Persian

Alternative forms

• طپانچه (tapânče) (dated spelling)
• تپنچه (tapanče), تمنچه (tamanča)
• تفنگچه (tufangča) (Dari)

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkic; attested since Farrukhī Sīstānī, early 11th century, in the sense of "slap." The sense of "pistol" is also a semantic loan from Ottoman Turkish طبانجه (tabanca, “pistol”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ta.pɑːn.ˈt͡ʃa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.pʰɑːn.t͡ʃʰǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.pʰɑːn.t͡ʃʰǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.pʰɑːn.t͡ʃʰǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.pʰɔːn.t͡ʃʰǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰæ.pʰɒːn.t͡ʃʰé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäp.pʰɔn.t͡ʃʰǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	tapānča
Dari reading?	tapānča
Iranian reading?	tapânče
Tajik reading?	tapponča

Noun

تپانچه • (tapânče)

1. handgun, pistol
2. (archaic) slap

   Synonym: سیلی (sili)

   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 102:

     گه میزنم طپانچه برو گه بسینه سنگ
     در عاشقی جز این نبود دسترس مرا

     gah mēzanam tapānča ba-rō gah ba-sīna sang
     dar āšiqī juz īn na-buwad dastras ma-rā

     Sometimes I slap myself on the face, sometimes I beat my chest with rocks;
     I have no competence in love except for this.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: tapança
  • → Armenian: թափանչա (tʻapʻančʻa), թարփանչա (tʻarpʻančʻa)
• → Gujarati: તમંચો (tamañco)
• → Hindustani:

  Urdu: تَپَنْچَہ (tapanca), تَمَنْچَہ (tamanca)

  Hindi: तमंचा (tamañcā)

• → Kazakh: тапанша (tapanşa)
• → Pashto: تمانچه (tamānčá), تومانچه (tomānčá), تپانچه (tapānčá), توپنچه (topančá)
• → Uyghur: تاپانچا (tapancha)
• → Uzbek: toʻpponcha