پیشکش

Persian

Etymology

From پیش (piš, “before”) +‎ کشیدن (kašidan, “to pull”).

Noun

پیشکش • (piškeš) (plural پیشکش‌ها (piškeš-hâ))

1. gift, present
2. offering

Synonyms

• هدیه (hediye)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: peşkəş
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: पेशकश (pēśkaś)
  • Urdu: پیشکش (pēśkaś)
• → Dargwa: пешкеш (peškeš)
• → Northern Kurdish: pêşkêş
• → Middle Armenian: փէշքէշ (pʻēškʻēš), փէշքաշ (pʻēškʻaš)
  • > Armenian: փեշքեշ (pʻeškʻeš) (inherited)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پیشكش (peşkeş)
  • > Turkish: peşkeş (inherited)
  • → Romanian: peșcheș

References

• Horn, Paul (1893) “pēš”, in Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 356, page 79
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “پیشکش”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 267
• Stachowski, Stanisław (1998) “peşkeş”, in Osmanlı Türkçesinde yeni Farsça alıntılar sözlüğü – Wörterbuch der neupersischen Lehnwörter im Osmanisch-Türkischen (in German), Istanbul: Simurg, § 423, page 163