پیشیں

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian پیشین (pešīn, “previous”). Compare Pashto نماسپېښين.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peːʃ.ʃĩː/

Noun

پیشِیں • (peśīṉ) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਪੇਸ਼ੀਂ)

1. (Islam) dhuhr

   Synonym: ظُہر (z̤uhr)

2. noon

   Synonym: دوپَہر (dopahr)

Coordinate terms

• سَرگھی (sarghī, “suhur, fajr”)
• ڈِیگَر (ḍīgar, “afternoon, asr”)
• نَماشاں (namāśāṉ, “maghrib”)
• کُفتاں (kuftāṉ, “isha”)

Derived terms

• پیشیں دی نَماز (peśīṉ dī namāz, “dhuhr prayer”)

Related terms

• نَمازِ پیشِیں (namāz-e peśīṉ, “dhuhr prayer”)

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “پیشیں”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “نماز_پیشی”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz