دی

See also: دي and ـدی

Pashto

Etymology

From Proto-Pathan *day < *dáγ, from an ancestral Middle Iranian form *idág,[1] from Proto-Iranian *Haytákah.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /d̪ai/

Pronoun

دی • (day)

  1. he (visible masculine singular third person)

References
  1. Julian Kreidl (2021) “Lambdacism and the development of Old Iranian *t in Pashto”, in Iran and the Caucasus

Persian

Etymology 1

From Old Persian 𐎮𐎹𐎣 (di-ya-ka /⁠diyaka⁠/), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰyás, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰyés.

Adverb
Dari دی
Iranian Persian
Tajik ди

دی • (di)

  1. (archaic) yester

Prefix

دیـ • (di-)

  1. yester-
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Middle Persian ddw’ (Day, “Creator”).

Pronunciation
 

Readings
Classical reading? day
Dari reading? day
Iranian reading? dey
Tajik reading? day

Proper noun
Dari دی
Iranian Persian
Tajik Дай

دی • (dey)

  1. Dey, the tenth month of the solar Persian calendar.

Noun

دی • (dey)

  1. (dialectal, Bushehr, Khesht, Konartakhteh, Dashtestan) mother, mama

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English dee.

Noun

دی • (di)

  1. Transliteration of the name of the Latin-script letter d in English and other European languages.
Derived terms

Punjabi

Postposition

دی • (dī) (Gurmukhi spelling ਦੀ)

  1. of
    Synonyms: دے (de), دا (dā)

Shina

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /diː/

Noun

دی (dī)

  1. daughter
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