پیاس

Ottoman Turkish

Payas District

Alternative forms

• بیاس (bayas), پیاص (payas)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بياس, ultimately from Ancient Greek Παίας (Paías).

Proper noun

پیاس • (payas)

1. Payas (a town and district in Hatay province, Turkey)

Descendants

• Turkish: Payas

Further reading

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Payas”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پیاس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 462
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Payas”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[2], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 609

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Apabhramsa पिआस (piāsa), from Prakrit 𑀧𑀺𑀯𑀸𑀲𑀸 (pivāsā), from Sanskrit पिपासा (pipāsā).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pɪ.jɑːs/

Noun

پِیاس • (piyās) f (Hindi spelling प्यास)

1. thirst

   کیا تمھیں پیاس لگی ہے؟ ― kyā tumhẽ pyās lagī hai? ― Are you thirsty?

Declension

Declension of پیاس
	singular	plural
direct	پِیاس (piyās)	پِیاسیں (piyāsẽ)
oblique	پِیاس (piyās)	پِیاسوں (piyāsõ)
vocative	پِیاس (piyās)	پِیاسو (piyāso)

Derived terms

• پیاسا (pyāsā)

References

• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پیاس”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 171
• “پیاس”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.