نوحه
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Persian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic نَوْحَة (nawḥa).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [naw.ha]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [now.he]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [näw.hä]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | nawha |
Dari reading? | nawha |
Iranian reading? | nowhe |
Tajik reading? | navha |
Dari | نوحه |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | навҳа |
Noun
[edit]نوحه • (nowhe) (plural نوحهها (nowhe-hâ))
- 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
nawha paydā nawha gōyān nā-padīd - He heard wailing from their limbs:
the lamentation was plain, those who uttered it (were) invisible.
- nāla az ajzā-yi ēšān mē-šinīd
References
[edit]- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “نوحه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim