پیغام

Persian

Alternative forms

• پیام (payâm)

Etymology

From Middle Persian; compare Middle Persian pgtʾm, Manichaean Middle Persian pygʾm, Sogdian [script needed] (patγām). Ultimately from Old Iranian *pati-gāma-, from Proto-Iranian *pati- (“against”) + a formation derived from Proto-Iranian *gam- (“to come”), the latter from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gam-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to come, step”). Compare also Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian պատգամ (patgam), Aramaic פתגמא, Classical Syriac ܦܬܓܡܐ (peṯəḡāmāʾ), Classical Mandaic ࡐࡅࡂࡃࡀࡌࡀ (pugdāmā), Hebrew פִּתְגָּם (piṯgām).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [paj.ɣɑːm]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäj.ɣɑːm]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäj.ɣɑːm]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰäj.ɣɑːm]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰäj.ɣɔːm]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pejɢɒːm]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäj.ʁɔm]

Readings
Classical reading?	payğām
Dari reading?	payğām
Iranian reading?	peyğâm
Tajik reading?	payġom

Noun

پیغام • (peyğâm) (plural پیغام‌ها (peyğâm-hâ))

1. message
   • 2006, “جون خودت”, performed by Black Cats:

     دختر ایرونی که ناز و دلبری این پیغام بلک کتس رو گوش کن

     Iranian Girls, cute and flirty, listen to this message from Black Cats!

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “պատգամ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 38
• Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 98-101
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, pages 222–223
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “paygām”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 67

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian پیغام (payğām).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pɛː.ɣɑːm/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːm

Noun

پَیغام • (paiġām) m (Hindi spelling पैग़ाम)

1. message

   Synonyms: خَبَر (xabar), سَنْدیش (sandeś), سَماچار (samācār), رِسالَہ (risāla)

2. advice

References

• “پیغام”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “پیغام”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.