نوحه

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَوْحَة (nawḥa, “lamentation (on the martyr of Husayn)”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [naw.ha]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [näw.hä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [näw.hä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [nä.wä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [nä.wä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [now.he]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [näw.hä]

Readings
Classical reading?	nawha
Dari reading?	nawha
Iranian reading?	nowhe
Tajik reading?	navha

Dari	نوحه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	навҳа

Noun

نوحه • (nowhe) (plural نوحه‌ها (nowhe-hâ))

1. mourning, lamentation, wailing
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 2543:

     ناله از اجزای ایشان می‌‌شنید
     نوحه پیدا نوحه گویان ناپدید

     nāla az ajzā-yi ēšān mē-šinīd
     nowhe paydā nowhe gōyān nā-padīd

     He heard wailing from their limbs:
     the lamentation was plain, those who uttered it (were) invisible.

References

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