شلوار

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• شالوار (şalvar)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian شلوار (šalvâr).

Noun

شلوار • (şelvar) (plural شلوارلر)

1. shalwar, loose trousers worn in some South Asian or Islamic countries

   Synonyms: (trousers) ایچ طون (iç don), طومان (tuman)

Derived terms

• شلوارلو (şalvarlı, “dressed in shalwars”)

Descendants

• Turkish: şalvar, şelvar
• → Albanian: shallvarë
• → Armenian: շալվար (šalvar)
• → Aromanian: shilvãri, shãlvãri, shãlivãri
• → Bulgarian: шалва́ри (šalvári)
  • → Hungarian: salavári
    • → Belarusian: шарава́ры (šaraváry)
    • → Polish: szarawary
      • → English: sherryvallies
    • → Ukrainian: шарава́ри (šaraváry)
      • → Russian: шарова́ры (šarováry)
• → Greek: σαλβάρι (salvári)
• → Ladino: shalvar
• → Macedonian: шалвари (šalvari)
• → Portuguese: saruel
• → Romanian: șalvari
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: ша̀лваре
  • Latin script: šàlvare

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şalvar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4424
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شلوار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 732
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Subligaculum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1614
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شلوار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2853
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şalvar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “1435. ŠILVǍ) RI sb. f.”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[4], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 179
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شلوار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1134

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (šlwʾl /⁠šalwār⁠/, “trousers”), from Proto-Iranian *šarawāra, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skelo- (“leg”) + *wero- (“to cover”).

For the first part compare شل (šal, “thigh”) and Old Armenian շար-աւանդ (šar-awand), an Iranian borrowing; for the second part compare Old Armenian վարտիք (vartikʻ), also an Iranian borrowing.

Compare Iranian borrowings: Ancient Greek σαράβαρα (sarábara, “Scythian loose trousers”), σαράβαλλα (saráballa), Latin sarabala, sarabāra, Biblical Aramaic (Daniel) and Jewish Babylonian Aramaic סַרְבָּלָא (sarbālā, “trousers; a type of outer garment”), Classical Syriac ܫܪܒܠܐ (šarbālā, “trousers”), ܫܪܘܠܐ du (šarwālē, “leggings”), Classical Mandaic ࡔࡀࡓࡅࡀࡋࡀ (šaruala, “trousers”), Arabic سِرْوَال (sirwāl), سِرْبَال (sirbāl), شِرْوَال (širwāl) (dialectal), شَرْوَال (šarwāl) (modern), سِرْوَل (sirwal), سِرْوِيل (sirwīl).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʃal.ˈwɑːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäl.wɑ́ːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäl.wɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʃäl.wɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʃäl.wɔ́ːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃæl.vɒ́ːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäl.vɔ́ɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	ʃalwāɾ
Dari reading?	ʃalwāɾ
Iranian reading?	ʃalvâɾ
Tajik reading?	ʃalvoɾ

Noun

Dari	شلوار
Iranian Persian
Tajik	шалвор

شلوار • (šalvâr) (plural شلوارها (šalvâr-hâ))

1. trousers, pants

   Synonyms: ازار (ezâr); پاجامه (pâjâme); (Dari Persian) پتلون (patlûn); (archaic) سروال (servâl); (dated) تنبان (tonbân)

Derived terms

• زیرشلوار (ziršalvâr)
• زیرشلواری (ziršalvâri)
• کت و شلوار (kot-(o)-šalvâr)
• شلوارک (šalvârak)
• دوشلواره (do-šalvâre)

Descendants

• Tajik: шалвор (šalvor)
• → Arabic: سِرْوَال (sirwāl)
  • → French: sarouel
  • → Galician: cirolas
  • → Portuguese: ceroulas
  • → Spanish: zaragüelles
• → Azerbaijani: şalvar
• → Bashkir: салбар (salbar)
• → Bengali: সালোয়ার (śalōẇar)
• → Georgian: შარვალი (šarvali)
• → Gujarati: સલવાર (salvār), સુરવાલ (survāl)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: शलवार (śalvār), सलवार (salvār)

  Urdu: شلوار (śalvār), سلوار (salvār)

  • → English: shalwar, salwar
• → Indonesian: salwar
• → Kalmyk: шалвр (şalvr)
• → Kazakh: шалбар (şalbar)
• → Lezgi: шалвар (šalvar)
• → Malay: seluar, salwar
• → Nogai: шалбыр (şalbır)
• → Ottoman Turkish: شلوار (şelvar), شالوار (şalvar)
  • Turkish: şalvar, şelvar
  • → Albanian: shallvarë
  • → Armenian: շալվար (šalvar)
  • → Aromanian: shilvãri, shãlvãri, shãlivãri
  • → Bulgarian: шалва́ри (šalvári)
    • → Hungarian: salavári
      • → Belarusian: шарава́ры (šaraváry)
      • → Polish: szarawary
        • → English: sherryvallies
      • → Ukrainian: шарава́ри (šaraváry)
        • → Russian: шарова́ры (šarováry)
  • → Greek: σαλβάρι (salvári)
  • → Ladino: shalvar
  • → Macedonian: шалвари (šalvari)
  • → Portuguese: saruel
  • → Romanian: șalvari
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic script: ша̀лваре
    • Latin script: šàlvare
• → Portuguese: saruel
• → Southern Altai: шалмар (šalmar)
• → Tagalog: salawal, salwal
• → Tatar: чалбар (çalbar)
• → Turkmen: jalbar

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “šalwār”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 79
• “šrbl”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “srbl”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 207
• Björkman, Walther (1997) “Sirwāl”, in Encyclopaedia of Islam. Second Edition, volume 9, Leiden: Brill, page 676
• Brockelmann, Carl (1928) “ܫܪܒܠܐ”, in Lexicon Syriacum (in Latin), 2nd edition, Halle: Max Niemeyer, published 1995, page 806b
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 1022a
• Shooshtary, Dakhil (2012) “Trouser”, in Mandaic Dictionary: English Mandaic, Bloomington: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 294