پیچ

See also: بيح, بیچ, بيج, and تیج

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From a dialectal form of Armenian բիճ (bič), from Middle Armenian բիճ (bič).

Noun

پیچ • (piç)

1. bastard, illegitimate child
2. sucker (an undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a plant)

Descendants

• Turkish: piç, pic
• → Northern Kurdish: pîç
• → Romanian: pici

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բիճ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 451b
• Budagov, Lazarʹ (1869) Sravnitelʹnyj slovarʹ turecko-tatarskix narěčij [Comparative Dictionary of Turko-Tatar Dialects] (in Russian), volume I, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 324
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “piç”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume IV, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, pages 3851–3852
• Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “پیچ”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 202a

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [peːt͡ʃ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰeːt͡ʃ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰeːt͡ʃ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰeːt͡ʃ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰeːt͡ʃ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰiːt͡ʃ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰet͡ʃ]

Readings
Classical reading?	pēč
Iranian reading?	pič
Tajik reading?	peč

Verb

پیچ • (pič)

1. present stem of پیچیدن (pičidan)

Noun

پیچ • (pič)

1. screw

   پیچی بستن ― piči bastan ― to bolt a screw

   پیچی باز کردن ― piči bâz kardan ― to unscrew

2. curve, curvature; twist, curl

   پیچ جاده ― pič-e jâdde ― road bend

3. (figurative) something intricate

Derived terms

• پیچک (pičak)
• پیچ‌گوشتی (pič-gušti)

 

Descendants

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: पेच (pec)

  Urdu: پیچ (pec)