لحظه

See also: لحظة

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَحْظَة (laḥẓa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [lah.ˈza]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [läɦ.zǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [läɦ.zǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [lɑː.zǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [lɔː.zǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [læɦ.zé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [läɦ.zǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	lahza
Dari reading?	lahza
Iranian reading?	lahze
Tajik reading?	lahza

Noun

لحظه • (lahze) (plural لحظه‌ها (lahze-hâ) or لحظات (lahazât))

1. moment

   Synonyms: دم (dam), آن (ân)

   یه لحظه صبر کن ― ye lahze sabr kon ― Wait a moment

   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 464”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[1]:

     آن دم که با تو باشم یک سال هست روزی
     وان دم که بی تو باشم یک لحظه هست سالی

     ān dam ki bā tu bāšam yak sāl hast rōzē
     w-ān dam ki bē tu bāšam yak lahza hast sālē

     The little while that I am with you, one year is a day;
     The little while that I am not with you, one moment is a year.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

• لحظه‌به‌لحظه (lahze-be-lahze)
• لحظه‌شماری (lahze-šomâri)
• لحظه‌شماری کردن (lahze-šomâri kardan)

 

Descendants

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: लहज़ा (lahzā)

  Urdu: لحظہ

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “لحظه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim