Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• شالوار ‎(şalvâr)

Noun

شلوار • ‎(şelvâr) ‎(plural شلوارلر)

1. trousers
2. shalwar

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian šlwʾl ‎(šalwār, “trousers”), from Proto-Indo-European *skelo- ‎(“thigh”) + *wero- ‎(“to cover”). For the first part compare شل ‎(šal, “thigh”), and for the second part compare Old Armenian վարտիք ‎(vartikʿ), 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 סרבלא ‎(srblʾ, “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) (possibly from the root س ب ل ‎(s-b-l)), شِرْوَال ‎(širwāl) (dialectal), شَرْوَال ‎(šarwāl) (modern), سِرْوَل ‎(sirwal), سِرْوِيل ‎(sirwīl).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian, Dari) IPA^(key): /ʃælˈwɒːɾ/
• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /ʃælˈvɒːɾ/
• (Tajik) IPA^(key): /ʃalˈvɔːɾ/

Noun

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

1. trousers
2. shalwar

Synonyms

• ازار ‎(ezâr), پای‌جامه ‎(pây-jâme), سروال ‎(servâl) (archaic)
• تنبان ‎(tombân) (dated)

Derived terms

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

Descendants

• Tajik: шалвор ‎(šalvor)
• → Azeri: şalvar
• → Bengali: সালোয়ার ‎(saloẏar)
• → Georgian: შარვალი ‎(šarvali)
• → 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: شالوار ‎(şalvâr), شلوار ‎(şelvâr)
  • Turkish: şalvar, şelvar
  • → Armenian: շալվար ‎(šalvar)
  • → Bulgarian: шалва́ри ‎(šalvári)
    • → Hungarian: salavári
      • → Belarusian: шарава́ры ‎(šaraváry)
      • → Polish: szarawary
        • → English: sherryvallies
      • → Ukrainian: шарава́ри ‎(šaraváry)
        • → Russian: шарова́ры ‎(šarováry)
  • → Greek: σαλβάρι ‎(salvári)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: шалваре / šalvare
• → Bashkir: салбар ‎(salbar)
• → 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
• “$rbl”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• 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 1456763636, page 294
• "Sirwāl" in Walther Björkman (1997), Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed., volume IX: San–Sze, edited by C. E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W. P. Heinrichs and the late G. Lecomte, Leiden: E. J. Brill, ISBN 90-04-10422-4, page 676