زرشک

See also: زرشك

Persian

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زرشک

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Etymology

Related to Northern Kurdish zerêşk, zirêşk, zirîşk, Gilaki [script needed] (zərəšk); Persian زریک (zerik), زرک (zerek), زرنگ (zarang), زراج (zarâj), زراک (zarâk); Yidgha [script needed] (azīto); Khotanese ysālva; all meaning "barberry" and ultimately deriving from the word for "yellow": compare Persian زر (zar, “gold”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /zi.ˈɾiʃk/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [zɪ.ɾɪʃk]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [zɪ.ɾɪʃk]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [zɪ.ɾɪʃk]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [zi.ɾiʃk]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ze.ɹeʃkʲ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [zi.ɾiʃk]

Readings
Classical reading?	zirišk
Dari reading?	zirišk
Iranian reading?	zerešk
Tajik reading?	zirišk

Noun

Dari	زرشک
Iranian Persian
Tajik	зиришк

زرشک • (zerešk)

1. barberry

   Synonyms: انبر باریس (anbar bâris), انبرباریس (anbarbâris), امبر باریس (ambar bâris), امبرباریس (ambarbâris), زارج (zârej), زارچ (zâreč)

   زرشک‌پلو ― zerešk-polow ― barberry rice

   زرشک‌پلو با مرغ ― zerešk-polow bâ morġ ― barberry rice with chicken

Related terms

• زرشکی (zereški)

Descendants

• → Arabic: زِرِشْك (zirišk)
• → Azerbaijani: zirişk, zirinc
• → Ottoman Turkish: زرشك (zirişk)
• → Turkmen: zirk
• → Uzbek: zirk
• → Uyghur: زىرىق (ziriq)
• → Classical Syriac: ܙܪܫܩ (zršq), ܣܪܫܩ (sršq)
• → Georgian: ზირიშკი (zirišḳi), ზერეშკი (zerešḳi), ზერეშქი (zereški), ზერენგი (zerengi) (Fereydan)
• → Middle Armenian: զրիշկ (zrišk)
  • Armenian: զրիշկ (zrišk), զիրիշք (ziriškʻ)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: ज़िरिश्क (ziriśk)

  Urdu: زِرِشْک (ziriśk)

• → Punjabi:

  Shahmukhi script: زِرِشْک (ziriśk)

Interjection

زرشک • (zerešk)

1. (slang) nonsense!
2. (slang) Oh man!

Further reading

• Cabolov, R. L. (2010), Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 526
• Bailey, H. W. (1979), Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 350a
• Bläsing, Uwe (2019), “Die armenischen Pflanzennamen in Peter Simon Pallas’ Flora Rossica. Eine Studie zu Etymologie und sprachlicher Interaktion”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15) (in German), Leuven: Peeters, pages 31–32
• Karimi, Hadi (1995), Plants of Iran : Scientific, English and Persian names, Tehran: Iran University Press, § 456f
• Morgenstierne, Georg (1938), Iranian Pamir Languages (Yidgha-Munji, Sanglechi-Ishkashmi and Wakhi) (Indo-Iranian Frontier Languages), volume II, Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co., page 196a

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian زرشک (zirišk).

Noun

زِرِشْک • (ziriśk) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਜ਼ਿਰਿਮ਼ਕ)

1. barberry

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “زِرِشک”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Urdu

Urdu Wikipedia has an article on:

زرشک

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Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian زرشک (zirišk).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /zɪ.ɾɪʃk/

Noun

زِرِشْک • (ziriśk) m (Hindi spelling ज़िरिश्क)

1. barberry

Further reading

• “زرشک”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “زرشک”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.