روسپی - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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From Persian روسپی (ruspi).

روسپی • (ruspi, rospi, rospu)

1. prostitute, harlot, hooker, whore

• Turkish: orospu

From Middle Persian [script needed] (lwspyk' /⁠rōspīg⁠/, “whore”), equivalent to رو (ru, “face”) + سپید (sapēd, “white, clear, bright”).

Readings
Classical reading?	rōspī
Dari reading?	rōspī, rūspī
Iranian reading?	ruspi
Tajik reading?	rüspi

روسپی • (ruspi) (plural روسپیان (ruspiyân) or روسپی‌ها (ruspi-hâ))

1. prostitute, harlot, whore, courtesan

   Synonyms: فاحشه (fâheše), تن‌فروش (tan-foruš), جنده (jende)

• روسپی‌زاده

• → Ottoman Turkish: روسپی (ruspi, rospi, rospu)
• → Armenian: օրոսփի (ōrospʻi)

• Bulkin, Carleton (2012) “روسپی”, in Dari-English/English-Dari practical dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 196
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 72