نوا

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Persian[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (nwʾk' /⁠niwāg⁠/). Compare Old Armenian նուագ (nuag), an Iranian borrowing.

Noun[edit]

نوا • (navâ)

  1. The name of a mode (دستگاه (dastgâh)) in Persian classical music.
    دستگاه نوا ― dastgâh-e navâ ― The mode of Nava, the dastgah of Nava
  2. sound, tone, voice

Proper noun[edit]

نوا • (navâ)

  1. a female given name, Nava

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

نوا • (navâ)

  1. Archaic form of نوه (nave, “grandson”).

References[edit]

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “نوا”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 1428
  • Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “نوا”, 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[1] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, pages 1357–1359
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