بهمن

See also: بہمن

Arabic

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (whwmn' /⁠wahman⁠/), see Persian بهمن (bahman) below.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bah.man/

Noun

بَهْمَن • (bahman) m

1. behen
   • 1025, ابن سينا (Avicenna), القانون في الطب‎ [Canon Medicinae], Rome: Stamperia Orientale Medicea, published 1593, Liber 2, page 252:

     زعم قوم أن الريوند أصول بهمن في الصين ويجلب من ثم الى البلاد

     The people says that the rhubarb is the stems of the behen in China and it is imported from there into the bleds.

   1. white behen (Centaurea behen)
   2. red behen (Limonium vulgare)

Declension

Declension of noun بَهْمَن (bahman)

singular	basic singular triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	بَهْمَن bahman	الْبَهْمَن al-bahman	بَهْمَن bahman
nominative	بَهْمَنٌ bahmanun	الْبَهْمَنُ al-bahmanu	بَهْمَنُ bahmanu
accusative	بَهْمَنًا bahmanan	الْبَهْمَنَ al-bahmana	بَهْمَنَ bahmana
genitive	بَهْمَنٍ bahmanin	الْبَهْمَنِ al-bahmani	بَهْمَنِ bahmani

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “بهمن”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 123
• Freytag, Georg (1830), “بهمن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 168

Gulf Arabic

Etymology

From Persian بهمن (bahman). The family is a Kuwaiti family of Persian descent, an ethnic group known in Kuwait as عيم (ʕayam).

Pronunciation

• (Kuwait) IPA^(key): /ˈbəhmən/

Proper noun

بَهْمَن • (bahman)

1. Kuwaiti family name; Bahman; Behman; Behmen

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (whwmn' /⁠wahman⁠/), from Old Persian *Vahumanah, name of the first Amahraspand (divine deity) in Zoroastrianism, guardian of cattle, in Avestan 𐬬𐬊𐬵𐬎⸱𐬨𐬀𐬥𐬀𐬵 (vohu.manah). Also showing botanical meanings in Middle Persian, from which Classical Syriac ܒܗܡܢ (bahman) and Arabic بَهْمَن (bahman) are borrowed.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /bah.ˈman/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bäɦ.mán]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bäɦ.mán]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [bɑː.mán]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bɔː.mán]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bæɦ.mǽn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bäɦ.mán]

Readings
Classical reading?	bahman
Dari reading?	bahman
Iranian reading?	bahman
Tajik reading?	bahman

• Audio (Iran):

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Proper noun

بهمن • (bahman) (Tajik spelling баҳман)

1. Bahman (the eleventh solar month of the Persian calendar)
2. Name of the second day of any month of the solar Persian calendar
3. a male given name, Bahman

Coordinate terms

Persian monthsedit

• فروردین (farwardīn / farvardin)
• اردیبهشت (urdībihišt / ordibehešt)
• خرداد (xurdād / xordâd)
• تیر (tīr / tir)
• مرداد (murdād / mordâd)
• شهریور (šahrēwar / šahrivar)
• مهر (mihr / mehr)
• آبان (ābān / âbân)
• آذر (āzar / âzar)
• دی (day / dey)
• بهمن (bahman)
• اسفند (isfand / esfand)

Noun

بهمن • (bahman)

1. avalanche
2. behen, which is cultivated for its flowers and bitter, pungent and potent root vegetable
   1. white behen (Centaurea behen)
   2. red behen (Limonium vulgare)
3. common awn-grass (Stipa capensis)

References

• Brockelmann, Carl (1928), Lexicon Syriacum (in Latin), 2nd edition, Halle: Max Niemeyer, published 1995, page 61a
• Ciancaglini, Claudia A. (2008), Iranian loanwords in Syriac (Beiträge zur Iranistik; 28)‎^[3], Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag
• Lagarde, Paul de (1866), Gesammelte Abhandlungen (in German), Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, page 20 Nr. 41
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “ب‍ﮩ‍من”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary (overall work in English), London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 212
• Vullers, Johann August (1855), “بهمن”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[4] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, pages 287b–288b