چهره

See also: چہرہ

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian 𐭰𐭧𐭫𐭪𐭩 (čihrag), from Old Persian *čiθrakaʰ, from Proto-Iranian *čiθrákah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čitrám, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷi-tróm, from *kʷey- (“bright, burning”). Cognate with Sanskrit चित्र (citra). Baluchi چِهرَگ (čihrag, “countenance, face”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃih.ɾa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰe̞ɦ.ɾä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰe̞ɦ.ɾä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰɪ.ɾä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰi.ɾä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰeɦ.ɹe]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰeɦ.ɾä]

Readings
Classical reading?	čihra
Dari reading?	čehra
Iranian reading?	čehre
Tajik reading?	čehra

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Noun

Dari	چهره
Iranian Persian
Tajik	чеҳра

چِهْرِه • (čehre) (plural چهره‌ها (čehre-hâ))

1. visage
2. face

Descendants

• → Assamese: চেহেৰা (sehera)
• → Azerbaijani: çöhrə
• → Bengali: চেহারা (cehara)
• → Gujarati: ચહેરો (cahero)
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: चेहरा (cehrā)
  • Urdu: چِہْرَہ (cihra)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਚਿਹਰਾ (cihrā)

  Shahmukhi script: چِہْرَہ (cihrah)

• → Ottoman Turkish: چهره (çehre)
  • Turkish: çehre
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: чехра

    Latin script: čehra

• → Uyghur: چىراي (chiray)
• → Uzbek: chehra, chiroy

See also

• صورت (surat)