ماه

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Arabic

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Etymology

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Formally from م و ه (m-w-h) and its variant, م ي ه (m-y-h), both of which derive denominally from مَاء (māʔ), itself being ultimately from Proto-Semitic *māy-.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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مَاهَ (māha) I (non-past يَمُوهُ (yamūhu), verbal noun مَوْه (mawh) or مُؤُوه (muʔūh) or مَاهَة (māha))
مَاهَ (māha) I (non-past يَمِيهُ (yamīhu), verbal noun مَيْه (mayh) or مَيْهَة (mayha))

  1. (intransitive) to produce water (of a well, etc.)
  2. (intransitive) to abound with water (of a well, etc.)
  3. (intransitive) to take on water (of a ship)
  4. (transitive) to give water to, to hydrate
    Synonyms: سَقَى (saqā), رَوَى (rawā)
    1. (transitive) to water (an animal)
    2. (transitive) to gild, to coat with gold or similar material
    3. (intransitive) to err [with فِي () ‘in one's words’], to make a slip of the tongue

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مَاهَ (māha) I (non-past يَمَاهُ (yamāhu), verbal noun مَوْه (mawh) or مُؤُوه (muʔūh) or مَاهَة (māha))

  1. (intransitive) to abound with water

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مَاهَ (māha) I (non-past يَمُوهُ (yamūhu), verbal noun مَوْه (mawh))

  1. (transitive) to mix [with accusative ‘something’ and بِ (bi) ‘with something’]

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Persian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Persian 𐭡𐭩𐭥𐭧 (byʿḥ /⁠māh⁠/), from Old Persian 𐎶𐎠𐏃 (m-a-h /⁠māha⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *mā́Hah (compare Northern Kurdish meh, mang, Ossetian мӕй (mæj), Avestan 𐬨𐬃 (mā̊), 𐬨𐬂𐬢𐬵 (måŋh), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mā́Has (compare Sanskrit मास (mā́sa)), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (moon, month) (compare Albanian muaj, Armenian ամիս (amis), French mois, Tocharian A mañ, English moon, month). Doublet of مانگ (mâng, Moon).[1]

For the poetic sense "beautiful person," compare the semantics of Arabic قَمَر (qamar, Moon; (in poetry) beautiful person).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? māh
Dari reading? māh
Iranian reading? mâh
Tajik reading? moh
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Noun

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Dari ماه
Iranian Persian
Tajik моҳ

ماه (mâh) (plural ماه‌ها (mâh-hâ))

  1. moon
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 122:
      شبم ز روزن اگر ماه آسمان آید
      جهم ز جای تصور کنم که ماه منست
      šabam zi rōzan agar māh-i āsmān āyad
      jaham zi jāy tasawwur kunam ki māh-i man ast
      At night, if the moon of the heavens comes to me through the window,
      I leap forth from my place, imagining that it is my beloved.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  2. month
  3. (poetic, figurative) beautiful person; beauty; the beloved
    Synonyms: ماهرو (mâhru), ماهرُخ (mâhrox)
    تو خیلی ماهیto xeyli mâhi.You are so lovely.
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 122:
      شبم ز روزن اگر ماه آسمان آید
      جهم ز جای تصور کنم که ماه منست
      šabam zi rōzan agar māh-i āsmān āyad
      jaham zi jāy tasawwur kunam ki māh-i man ast
      At night, if the moon of the heavens comes to me through the window,
      I leap forth from my place, imagining that it is my beloved [lit: "moon"].
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Iranian Persian: مَاه (mâh)
  • Tajik: моҳ (moh)
  • Gujarati: માહ (māh)
  • Hindustani:
    Hindi: माह (māh)
    Urdu: مَاہ (māh)

References

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  1. ^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 338