मींयां
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Old Hindi[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- मियां (miyā̃)
Etymology[edit]
PIE word |
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*médʰyos |
Borrowed from Classical Persian میان (miyān, “lord, sir (in Indo-Persian)”). Compare Old Punjabi ਮੀਆ (mīā /mīāṁ/).
Noun[edit]
मींयां (mī̃yā̃)
- a respectful term of address to an elderly Muslim man
Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 558
Categories:
- Old Hindi terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *médʰyos
- Old Hindi terms derived from Middle Persian
- Old Hindi terms derived from Proto-Iranian
- Old Hindi terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Old Hindi terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Hindi terms borrowed from Classical Persian
- Old Hindi terms derived from Classical Persian
- Old Hindi lemmas
- Old Hindi nouns