شیشه

See also: شیشہ and شيشة

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (šyšk' /⁠šīšag⁠/, “bottle, flask”), seemingly from *šīš (compare Old Armenian շիշ (šiš, “bottle”), an Iranian borrowing) + common suffix -ag, probably ultimately from Semitic. Compare Biblical Hebrew שַׁיִשׁ (šayiš, “alabaster; marble”), Classical Syriac ܫܝܫܐ (šēšā, “marble”), Egyptian

(šs, “alabaster”).

Pronunciation

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• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʃiː.ʃa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃiː.ʃä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃiː.ʃä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʃiː.ʃä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʃi.ʃä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃiː.ʃe]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃi.ʃä]

Readings
Classical reading?	šīša
Dari reading?	šīša
Iranian reading?	šiše
Tajik reading?	šiša

Noun

شیشهٔ شکسته (šiše-ye šekaste, “broken glass”)

شیشه • (šiše)

1. glass

   وی شیشه را شکست. ― vey šiše râ šekast. ― He broke the glass. (Iran, literary)

   اون شیشه رو شکست. ― un šiša ro šekast. ― He broke the glass. (Iran, colloquial)

   شِیشهٔ دِلَم، اَی خُدا، زیرِ سَنگ آمَده.

   šīša-yi dilam, ay xudā, zēr-i sang āmada.

   The glass of my heart, o God, comes under the stone.

   (Dari, literary)

2. bottle; flask (of glass)
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 328:

     گفت احول ز ان دو شیشه من کدام
     پیش تو آرم بکن شرح تمام

     guft ahwal z-ān du šīša man kudām
     pēš-i tu āram bikun šarh-i tamām

     Said the squint-eyed one: “Which of the two bottles shall I bring to you? Explain fully.”

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

• شیشه باز (šiše bâz, “magician; trickster”)
• شیشه بر (šiše bor, “glazier”)
• شیشه جان (šiše jân, “timid”, literally “glass-soul”)
• شیشه رنگی (šiše-ye rangi, “stained glass”)
• شیشه‌ای (šiše-yi, “glassy”)
• شیشه‌گر (šiše-gar, “glassblower”)

 

Descendants

Descendants

• → Albanian: shishe
• → Middle Armenian: շիշայ (šišay), շուշայ (šušay)
  • Armenian: շիշա (šiša), շուշա (šuša)
• → Georgian: შუშა (šuša)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: शीशा (śīśā)

  • → Telugu: సీసా (sīsā)

  Urdu: شیشہ (šīša)

  Tamil: சீசா (cīcā)

• → Marathi: शीशी (śīśī)
• → Punjabi: ਸ਼ੀਸ਼ਾ (śīśā)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਸ਼ੀਸ਼ਾ (śīśā)

  Shahmukhi script: شیشہ (šīša)

• → Turkic:
  • Southern Altai: шише (šiše)
  • Azerbaijani: şüşə
  • Bashkir: шешә (şeşə), шишә (şişə)
  • Kazakh: шиша (şişa)
  • Kyrgyz: шише (şişe)
  • Nogai: сисе (sise)
  • Tatar: шешә (şeşä), шиша (şişa)
    • → Eastern Mari: шиша (šiša)
  • Ottoman Turkish: شیشه (şîşe)
    • Turkish: şişe
    • → Albanian: shishe
    • → Crimean Tatar: şişe
    • → Egyptian Arabic: شیشه (šīša)
      • → English: shisha, sheesha, shishah
      • → German: Schischa, Shisha
      • → Low German: Schischa
    • → Gulf Arabic: شيشة (šīša)
    • → Hijazi Arabic: شيشة (šīša)
    • → Libyan Arabic: شيشة (šīša)
    • → Macedonian: шише (šiše)
  • Uyghur: شېشە (shëshe), шишә (shishe)
  • Uzbek: shisha