میوه

See also: میوہ‎ and ميوة‎

Chagatai

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian میوه‎ (mēwa).

Noun

میوه (mewä) (plural ميوهلار‎)

1. fruit

Descendants

• Uyghur: مېۋە‎ (mëwe)
• Uzbek: meva

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• մէյվէ (meyve) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian میوه‎ (mēwa, “fruit”).

Noun

میوه • (meyve)

1. (botany) fruit, the seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible

   Synonyms: ثمر‎ (semer), یمیش‎ (yemiş)

   ‏میوه آغاجندن اوزاق دوشمز‎ ― meyve ağacdan uzak düşmez ― the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree

Derived terms

• میوه آغاجی‎ (meyve ağacı, “fruit tree”)
• میوه‌جی‎ (meyveci, “fruiterer”)
• میوه‌خانه‎ (meyvehane, “hothouse”)
• میوه‌خوش‎ (meyvehoş, “nuts”)
• میوه‌دار‎ (meyvedar, “fructiferous”)
• میوه‌سز‎ (meyvesiz, “fruitless”)
• میوه‌لك‎ (meyvelik, “fruit orchard”)
• میوه‌لو‎ (meyveli, “fructiferous”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: meyve
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ми̏ва

  Latin script: mȉva

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “meyve”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3188
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “میوه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 472b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “میوه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1258
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Fructus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 619
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “میوه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5080
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “meyve”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “میوه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2057

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐭬𐭩𐭥𐭪‎ (mēwag, “fruit”), in Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫖𐫏𐫇‎ (myw /⁠mēw⁠/), Baluchi نیوَگ (nēwag, "Fruit") but Parthian 𐫖𐫏𐫃𐫅‎ (mygd /⁠miɣẟ⁠/) and 𐫖𐫏𐫃𐫅𐫃‎ (mygdg /⁠miɣẟag⁠/, “fruit”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [meː.ˈwa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [meː.wǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [meː.wǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [meː.wǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [meː.wǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [miː.vé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [me.vǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	mēwa
Dari reading?	mēwa
Iranian reading?	mive
Tajik reading?	meva

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Noun

Dari	میوه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	мева

میوه • (mive or mêwa) (plural میوه‌جات‎ (mive-jât) or میوه‌ها‎ (mive-hâ))

1. fruit

Derived terms

• آب میوه‎ (âb-e mive)
• میوه‌فروش‎ (mive-forôš)
• میوه‌فروشی‎ (mive-forôši)
• میوهٔ‌ جاپانی‎ (mêwa'i jâpânî) (Dari)

Descendants

• → Assamese: মেৱা (mewa)
• → Chagatai: میوه‎
  • Uyghur: مېۋە‎ (mëwe)
  • Uzbek: meva
• → Gulf Arabic: ميوة‎ (mēwa)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: मेवा (mevā)

  Urdu: میوہ‎ (mevā)

• → Kazakh: мәуе (mäue)
• → Old Anatolian Turkish: میوه‎ (meyve)
  • Azerbaijani: meyvə
  • Ottoman Turkish: میوه‎ (meyve), մէյվէ (meyve)
    • Turkish: meyve
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: ми̏ва

      Latin script: mȉva

  • → Crimean Tatar: meyva

See also

• ثمر‎ (samar)
• بار‎ (bâr)