پیشگیر

See also: پیشكیر

Persian

Etymology

From پیش (pêš) +‎ گیر (gir).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [peːʃ.ˈɡiːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰeːʃ.ɡíːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰeːʃ.ɡíːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰeːʃ.ɡíːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰiʃ.ɡíɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰiːʃ.ɡʲíːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰeʃ.ɡíɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	pēšgīr
Dari reading?	pēšgīr
Iranian reading?	pišgir
Tajik reading?	pešgir

Noun

پیشگیر • (pêš-gir)

1. towel
2. napkin

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: peşkir (dialectal)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پیشگیر (pîşgîr), پشگیر (peşgir), پشكیر (peşkir), پشكر (peşker)
  • Turkish: peşkir, dialectally also peşgir, peşker
  • → Albanian: peshqir, peshkir — Gheg, peshir — Gheg
  • → Arabic: بَشْكِير (baškīr)
  • → Bulgarian: пешки́р (peškír)
  • → Greek: πεσκίρι (peskíri)
  • Kurdish:

    → Northern Kurdish: pêjgîr, pêşkîr

  • → Macedonian: пешкир (peškir)
  • → Romanian: peșchir
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пѐшкӣр

    Latin script: pèškīr

• → Zazaki: pésger

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “پیشگیر”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul