اخم

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Persian

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Etymology

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Attested late; first attestation may be Mullā Tughrā (died 1667). From a suffixed form of Proto-Iranian *ák- (bad), related to Proto-Indo-European *ákas (bad).[1] Compare Avestan 𐬀𐬑𐬙𐬌 (axti, pain, suffering) and Sanskrit अक (aka, pain).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Dari reading? axm
Iranian reading? axm
Tajik reading? axm

Noun

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Dari اخم
Iranian Persian
Tajik ахм

اخم (axm)

  1. frown

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Herzenberg, L. G. (2011) “Studies in Persian Etymology I”, in Colloquia Classica et Indogermanica: Studies in Classical Philology and Indo-European Languages, Saint Petersburg: Nauka