برتن

بُرْتُنَّ • (burtunna) (form I) /bur.tun.na/

1. second-person feminine plural past active of بَارَ (bāra)

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾp̄ltn' /⁠abar-tan⁠/, “arrogant”).^[1] By surface analysis, بر (bar, “superior”) +‎ تن (tan, “body, person”).

برتن • (bartan) (Tajik spelling бартан)

1. (Classical Persian) arrogant, selfish

برتن • (bartan) (Tajik spelling бартан)

1. (Classical Persian) arrogant man

• برتنی (bartanī / bartani)

From بر (bar, “on”) +‎ تن (tan, “body”).

برتن • (bartan) (Tajik spelling бартан)

1. (Classical Persian) clothes (on one's body)

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “برتن”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

From برتنا (baratnā, “to use, make use of”) +‎ ان (an). Compare Punjabi ਵਰਤਣ (vartaṇ) / وَرْتَݨ (vartaṇ).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bəɾ.t̪ən/
• Rhymes: -ən

بَرْتَن • (bartan) m (Hindi spelling बर्तन)

1. crockery, dinnerware, tableware; any vessel used for eating

   عورت نے برتن صاف کرنے شروع کیے۔

   ’aurat ne bartan sāf karne śurū kiye.

   The lady began cleaning the dishes.

• → Pashto: برتن

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