زیرا

Persian

Alternative forms

• ازیرا (azērā) (poetic, Classical Persian)

Etymology

From classical compound از (az, “of”) ‎ ایرا (ērā, “because”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ˈzeː.ɾɑː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [zéː.ɾɑː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [zéː.ɾɑː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [zéː.ɾɑː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [zéː.ɾɔː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [zíː.ɹɒː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [zé.ɾɔ]

Readings
Classical reading?	zērā
Dari reading?	zērā
Iranian reading?	zirâ
Tajik reading?	zero

Conjunction

زیرا • (zirâ)

1. (literary) because

   Synonym: چون (čon)

   چون که زیرا (colloquial) ― čon ke zirâ ― equivalent to English “because I said so” (literally, “because because”)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: zira
• → Middle Armenian: զէրէ (zērē), զէրայ (zēray), զէրա (zēra)
  • Armenian: զերե (zere)
• → Ottoman Turkish: زیرا (zira)
  • Turkish: zira
  • → Armenian: զիրա (zira)

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “ēd”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 30