شیوه

Persian

Etymology

From the stem of شیب (šib, “tilt, descend; bottom, base”) and شیفتن (šiftan, “to attract, to infatuate, to besot”) +‎ ـه (-e).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʃeː.wa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃeː.wä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃeː.wä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʃeː.wä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʃeː.wä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃiː.ve]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃe.vä]

Readings
Classical reading?	šēwa
Dari reading?	šēwa
Iranian reading?	šive
Tajik reading?	ševa

Noun

Dari	شیوه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	шева

شیوه • (šive) (plural شیوه‌ها (šive-hâ))

1. method, way
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 249:

     گفت آن خر کاو به شب لاحول خورد
     جز بدین شیوه نداند راه کرد

     guft ān xar k-ō ba šab lāhawl xward
     juz badīn šēwa na-dānad rāh kard

     He replied, “The ass that ate Lá hawl during the night
     cannot get along except in this manner.

2. graceful gesture or glance, blandishment, fizgig
3. craft, ruse, guile

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: şivə
• → Ottoman Turkish: شیوه (şive)
  • Turkish: şive
  • → Crimean Tatar: şive