مخفی
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Persian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic مَخْفِيّ (maḵfiyy).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [max.ˈfiː]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [mæx.fíː]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [mäχ.fí]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | maxfī |
Dari reading? | maxfī |
Iranian reading? | maxfi |
Tajik reading? | maxfi |
Adjective
[edit]مخفی • (maxfi)
- secret, hidden
- 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 84:
- هم بحق جمله اولاد و اصحاب کبار
کز خردشان نیست مخفی آشکارا و نهان- ham ba-haqq-i jumla-yi awlād u ashāb-i kibār
k-az xiradišān nēst maxfī āškārā u nihān - Also, [I swear] by all of his [the Prophet's] great descendants and companions,
From whose wisdom nothing is hidden, whether public or secret.
- ham ba-haqq-i jumla-yi awlād u ashāb-i kibār
Further reading
[edit]- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “مخفی”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim