قلیان

Persian

یک زن ایرانی در حال کشیدن قلیان.
An Iranian woman smoking a hookah.

Alternative forms

• غلیان (ğalyân), قلیون (qalyun)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic غَلْيُون (ḡalyūn, “smoking pipe”), then hypercorrecting the ending [un] which colloquial Iranian Persian generally puts for trailing /ɒn/, with regard to the vulgar origin of the habit of tobacco smoking, which wrong deduction was also supported by reminiscence of Arabic غَلَيَان (ḡalayān, “boiling”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [qal.jɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qäl.jɑːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qäl.jɑːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [qäl.jɑːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qäl.jɔːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qæl.jɒːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [qäl.jɔn]

Readings
Classical reading?	qalyān
Dari reading?	qalyān
Iranian reading?	ğalyân
Tajik reading?	qalyon

Noun

قلیان • (qalyân)

1. hookah

   Synonym: نارگیله (nârgile)

Inflection

Possessive forms of قلیان (qalyân)
	singular	plural
1st person (“my, our”)	قلیانم (qalyânam) [Term?]△ (qelyunam)	قلیانمان (qalyânemân) [Term?]△ (qelyunemun)
2nd person (“your”)	قلیانت (qalyânat) [Term?]△ (qelyunet)	قلیانتان (qalyânetân) [Term?]△ (qelyunetun)
3rd person (“his, her, its, their”)	قلیانش (qalyânaš) [Term?]△ (qelyuneš)	قلیانشان (qalyânešân) [Term?]△ (qelyunešun)
△ Colloquial.

Descendants

• → Russian: калья́н (kalʹján)
  • → Belarusian: калья́н (kalʹján)
  • → Ukrainian: калья́н (kalʹján)

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “غليان”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “غلیان”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 617b