# پا
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پا (pa).

### Noun

پا • (pa)
* the foot
* the leg
* a hind-leg in a quadruped
* a foundation, base, pedestal, leg, lower part of various inanimate things; also, the stern of a ship or boat
* power; firmness, durability, constancy
* a footing
* a footstep, trace, vestige
* a pretext, excuse, assigned cause

#### Related terms

* پاجامه (pacame)

### Further reading

* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 428

## Persian
### Etymology 1

From earlier پای (pây), from Middle Persian [script needed] (pāy), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎭 (pād(a)), from Proto-Iranian *pā́dah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pā́ts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds (“foot”).

#### Alternative forms

* پای (pây) (archaic)
* پو (pow) (dialectal, Sistan)

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [pɑː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [pʰɑː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [pʰɑː]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [pʰɑː]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [pʰɔː]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [pʰɒː]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [pʰɔ]

#### Noun

| Dari | پا |
| Iranian Persian | پا |
| Tajik | по |
پا • (pâ) (plural پاها (pâ-hâ))
* leg
* foot
** 2006, Black Cats, جون خودت:ببين چطور دلم افتاده به پاتbebin četor delam âftâde be pât Look how my heart fell to your feet
* limb

##### Derived terms

nouns
* انگشتِ پا (angošt-e pâ, “toe”)
* تیپا (tip(p)â, “a kick with the tip of the foot”)
* جاپا (jâ-pâ, “ford”)
* خرپا (xar-pâ, “truss”)
* دمپایی (dampâyi, “slipper”)
* ردِّ پا (redd-e pâ, “footprint”)
* روپایی (rupâyi, “keepie-uppie”)
* زیرپایی (zirpâyi, “footrest”)
* سرپایان (sarpâyân, “cephalopods”)
* سنگِ پا (sang-e pâ, “pumice”, literally “foot stone”)
* شستِ پا (šast-e pâ, “big toe”)
* صدپا (sad-pâ, “centipede”)
* لاپایی (lâpâyi, “intercrural sex”)
* مچ پا (moč-e pâ, “ankle”)
* هزارپا (hezâr-pâ, “millipede”)
* هشت‌پا (hašt-pâ, “octopus”)
* همپا (ham-pâ, “companion”)
* پابوسی (pâ-busi, “pilgrimage”, literally “foot kissing”)
* پادرمیانی (pâ-dar-miyâni, “intervention”)
* پادری (pâdari, “welcome mat”)
* پادو (pâdo, “lackey”)
* پاشنه‌یِ پا (pâšne-ye pâ, “heel”)
* پاقدم (pâ-qadam, “auspice”)
* پاچه (pâče, pâčče, “totters, trousers”)
* پاگشا (pâ-gošâ, “Pagosha, a reception party for newlyweds”)
* پایتخت (pâytaxt, “capital city”)
* پایمردی (pâymardi, “perseverance”)
* پایه (pâye, “pod, basis, foundation”)
* پایکوبی (pâykubi, “dancing and hopping”)
* پایگاه (pây(e)gâh, “base, headquarter”)
* پشتِ پا (pošt-e pâ, “spurn”)
* کفِ پا (kaf-e pâ, “sole”)
adjectives and adverbs
* بی‌دست‌و‌پا (bi-dast-o-pâ, “clumsy”)
* بی‌سر‌و‌پا (bi-sar-o-pâ, “hobo”)
* تیزپا (tiz-pâ, “swift”)
* خرده‌پا (xorde-pâ, “with a small capital, ordinary”)
* دست‌وپاگیر (dast-o-pâ-gir, “unwieldy, restrictive”)
* دست‌و‌پا‌شکسته (dast-o-pâ šekaste, “broken (of a language)”)
* دست‌و‌پا‌چلفتی (dast-o-pâ čolofti, “clumsy”)
* دست‌پاچه (dast-pâče, “flustered”)
* سرِپا (sare-pâ, “standing, healthy and youthful”)
* سه‌پایه (se-pâye, “tripod”)
* پابرجا (pâbarjâ, “standing, enduring, existing”)
* پابه‌سن‌گذاشته (pâ-be-sen gozâšte, “aged, senior”)
* پابه‌ماه (pâ-be-mâh, “pregnant, in the family way”)
* پابه‌پا (pâ-be-pâ, “shoulder to shoulder”)
* پاخورده (pâ xorde, “stepped on”)
* پادار (pâdâr, “legged”)
* پاسوز (pâsuz, “loyal and devoted despite predicaments”)
* پاپِی (pâpey, “pushy, persistent”)
* پاپیچ (pâ-pič, “puttee, insistent, bothersome”)
* پاگیر (pâ dadan, “settled down”)
* پایدار (pâydâr, “stable”)
* پایمال (pâymâl, “trampled”)
* پاینده (pâyande, “lasting”)
* پایور (pâyvar, “persistent”)
* پیش‌ِپااُفتاده (piš-e pâ oftâde, “trivial”)
* چهارپا (čahâr-pâ, “quadruped”)
* کلّه‌پا (kalle-pâ, “stumbled, upside down”)
* گل‌پا (gol-pâ, “gardener, auspicious”)
verbs
* آتش به پا کردن (âtaš be pâ kardan, “to set on fire, to arson”)
* این پا اون پا کردن (in-pâ-'un-pâ kardan, “to beat around the bush”)
* دست و پا زدن (dast-o-pâ zadan, “to struggle”)
* زیرِ پا گذشتن (zir-e pâ gozaštan, “to trample, to violate”)
* پا دادن (pâ dâdan, “to agree to hook up”)
* پا زدن (pâ zadan, “to cycle, to bike”)
* پا شدن (pâ šodan, “to get up”)
* پا پیش گذاشتن (pâ piš gozâštan, “to take the initiative”)
* پا گرفتن (pâ gereftan, “to gain strength”)

##### Descendants

* → Ottoman Turkish: پا (pa)
* → Urdu: پا (pā)

### Etymology 2
#### Alternative forms

* پی (pey, poy) (dialectal, Khesht, Konartakhteh, Dashtestan) (used only when not followed by possessive suffixes)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɒː/

#### Preposition

پا • (pâ)
* (dialectal, Khesht, Konartakhteh, Dashtestan) (used only when followed by possessive suffixes) with

### References

* ↑ Edelʹman, D. I. (2020) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 6, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 52

## Southern Kurdish
### Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *pā́dah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pā́das, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds (“foot”).

### Noun

پا (pā)
* (anatomy) leg

## Urdu
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Persian پا (pâ).

#### Noun

پا • (pā) m
* foot
    Synonym: پاؤں (pāũ)
* leg

##### Related terms

* پاجامَہ (pājāma)

#### Further reading

* Platts, John T. (1884) “پا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

پا • (pā) (Hindi spelling पा)
* inflection of پانا (pānā):
** stem
** second-person singular intimate present imperative

#### Further reading

* Platts, John T. (1884) “پا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.