# پنبه
## Gilaki
### Etymology

From Middle Persian pmbk'.

### Noun

پنبه (panba)
* cotton

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پنبه (panbe, “cotton”), itself from Middle Persian pmbk' and thus a doublet of پاموق (pamuk, “cotton”). Only the literal meaning "cotton" is attested up to the early 18th century, while the meaning "rosy, pink" is attested later and cannot be reliably justified from the colour of cotton (although there are natural colored varieties of cotton, including pink).

### Noun

پنبه • (pembe)
* cotton, the vegetal fibers produced by plants of the genus Gossypium
    Synonyms: پاموق (pamuk), قطن (kutn)
* (by extension) anything soft, white or unsoiled
* pink, a color between red and white

### Adjective

پنبه • (pembe)
* pink, having a color between red and white
    Synonyms: گلگون (gülgûn), گل رنگ (gülreng)

#### Coordinate terms

Colors in Ottoman Turkish · بویا بویلر (boyalar) (layout · text) :
| آق (ak) | بوز (boz) | قره (kara) |
| قزل (kızıl); آل (al) | ترنجی (türünci); قوڭور (koñur) | صاری (sarı) |
| | یشیل (yeşil) | |
| | گوك (gök) | ماوی (mavi) |
| مور (mor) | افلاطون (eflatun) | پنبه (pembe) |

#### Derived terms

* توز پنبه‌سی (toz pembesi, “very light pink color”)
* پنبه یݣاق (pembe yañak, “rosy cheek”)
* پنبه‌بز (pembebez, “carder of cotton”)
* پنبه‌دار (pembedar, “padded with cotton”)
* پنبه‌ریس (pemberis, “cotton-spinning machine”)
* پنبه‌زار (pembezar, “kind of light shirting material”)
* پنبه‌كن (pembeken, “cotton gin”)
* پنبه‌چول (pembeçul, “kind of light shirting material”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: pembe
* → Armenian: փեմպե (pʻempe)
* →⇒ Laz: ფემბელი (pembeli)

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pembe”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3816
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پنبه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 324
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gossipium”, 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, Vienna, column 660
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پنبه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 893
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pembe”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پنبه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 453

## Persian
### Etymology

From Middle Persian pmbk' (pambag, “cotton”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [pam.ˈba]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [pʰʊm.bǽ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [pʰʊm.bǽ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [pʰʊm.bǽ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [pʰum.bǽ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [pʰæm.bé]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [pʰum.bǽ]

### Noun

| Dari | پنبه |
| Iranian Persian | پنبه |
| Tajik | пунба |
پنبه • (panbe) (plural پنبه‌ها (panbe-hâ))
* cotton
    Synonym: پخته (paxte)

#### Derived terms

* پنبه‌دانه (panbe-dâne, “cottonseed”)
* پنبه‌زار (panbe-zâr, “cottonfield”)
* پنبه‌پاک‌کن (panbe-pâk-kon, “cotton gin”)

#### Descendants

* → Armenian: բամբակ (bambak)
* → Arabic: بمبه
* → Central Kurdish: پەمبە (pembe)
* → Ottoman Turkish: پنبه
** Turkish: pembe
* → Georgian: ბამბა (bamba)
* → Northern Kurdish: pembû
* → Urdu: پنبہ (pamba)
* → Zazaki: peme

#### See also

* غوزه (ğuze, “cotton boll”)

### References

* MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “pambag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press