دی

See also: دیـ, دي, and ـدی

Pashto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d̪ai/

Pronoun

دی • (day)

1. he (visible masculine singular third person)

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

Derived terms

• دیـ (“yester-”)

Etymology 2

Middle Persian ddw’ (Day, “Creator”).

Pronunciation

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

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äj]

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

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ej]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äj]

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

• دی‌ان‌ای (di-en-ey)

Punjabi

Postposition

دی • (dī) (Gurmukhi spelling ਦੀ)

1. direct/oblique feminine singular of دا (dā)

Shina

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diː/

Noun

دی (dī)

1. daughter