قلیان

Persian
یک زن ایرانی در حال کشیدن قلیان.

An Iranian woman smoking a hookah.

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Arabic غَلْيُون (ḡalyūn, “smoking pipe”), then hypercorrecting the ending [un] which colloquial Iranian Persian generally puts for trailing /ɒn/, with regard to the vulgar origin of the habit of tobacco smoking, which wrong deduction was also supported by reminiscence of Arabic غَلَيَان (ḡalayān, “boiling”).

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [qäl.jɑːn]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [qäl.jɑːn]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [qäl.jɔːn]

Readings
Classical reading? qalyān
Dari reading? qalyān
Iranian reading? ğalyân
Tajik reading? qalyon

Noun

قلیان • (qalyân)

  1. hookah
    Synonym: نارگیله (nârgile)

Inflection
    Possessive forms of قلیان (qalyân)
singular plural
1st person
(“my, our”)		 قلیانم
(qalyânam)
[Term?]△
(qelyunam)		 قلیانمان
(qalyânemân)
[Term?]△
(qelyunemun)
2nd person
(“your”)		 قلیانت
(qalyânat)
[Term?]△
(qelyunet)		 قلیانتان
(qalyânetân)
[Term?]△
(qelyunetun)
3rd person
(“his, her, its, their”)		 قلیانش
(qalyânaš)
[Term?]△
(qelyuneš)		 قلیانشان
(qalyânešân)
[Term?]△
(qelyunešun)
△ Colloquial.

Descendants
  • → Russian: калья́н (kalʹján)

References
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “غليان”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “غلیان”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎ (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 617b
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