هدیه

See also: هدية, هديه, and ہدیہ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic هَدِيَّة (hadiyya).

Noun

هدیه • (hediye) (definite accusative هدیه‌یی (hediyeyi), plural هدایا (hedaya))

1. present
2. gift

Descendants

• Turkish: hediye

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “هدیه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1323

Persian

Alternative forms

• هدیة (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic هَدِيَّة (hadiyya).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ha.ðij.ja], [hað.ja]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [häd̪.jä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [häd̪.jä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔäd̪.jä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔäd̪.jä]

 

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [hæ.d̪i.je]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [hæ.d̪i.je]
  • (Tehrani) IPA^(key): [he.d̪i.je]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [häd̪.jä]

Readings
Classical reading?	haḏiyya, haḏya
Dari reading?	hadya
Iranian reading?	hadiye
Tajik reading?	hadya

• Audio (Tehrani):

  (file)

Noun

Dari	هدیه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ҳадя

هدیه • (hadiye) (plural هدایا (hadâyâ))

1. gift, present

   Synonym: کادو (kâdo)

   هدیه تولد ― hadiye-ye tavallod ― birthday present

   این کتاب برای هدیه به تو داده شد.

   in ketâb barâ-ye hadiye be to dâde šod.

   This book was given to you as a gift.

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 2816:

     گفت این هدیه بدان سلطان برید، سایل شه را ز حاجت واخرید.

     goft in hadiye bedân soltân barid, sâil-e shah-râ ze hâjat vâxarid.

     "Bear this gift," said he, "to the Sultan; redeem the King's suitor from indigence."

Descendants

• → Bengali: হাদিয়া (hadiẏa)
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: हदिया (hadiyā)
  • Urdu: ہدیہ (hadiyah)
• → Pashto: هديه (hadyá)

References

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “هدیه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim