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همه

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See also: همة

Persian

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Etymology

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From Middle Persian hmʾk' (hamāg, “all”),[1] from Proto-Iranian *hama-ka-, from Proto-Iranian *ham- (“together”).[2] Akin to Old Armenian համակ (hamak), an Iranian borrowing. Compare Central Kurdish ھەموو (hemû) and Northern Kurdish hemû, hemî.

Pronunciation

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(pronoun):

 

Readings
Classical reading? hama
Dari reading? hama
Iranian reading? hame
Tajik reading? hama

(adjective):

 

Readings
Classical reading? hamá-yi
Dari reading? hama-yi
Iranian reading? hame-ye
Tajik reading? hama-yi
  • Rhymes: -e (Iran), -a (other dialects)

Pronoun

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همه • (hame)

  1. all
  2. everyone

Adjective

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همهٔ • (hame-ye)

  1. all, every
    همهٔ ما خیلی خوشحالیم. ― hame-ye mâ xeyli xošhâlim. ― All of us are very happy.
    همهٔ این کتابا رو خونده‌ام. (more colloquial)
    hame-ye in ketâb-â-ro xundam.
    I've read all of these books.
    • (Can we date this quote?), Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, “Surah Luqman, 31:27”, in Translation of the Qur'an:
      و اگر همه درختان روی زمین قلم شود
      va agar hame-ye deraxtân-e ru-ye zamin qalam šavad
      and if all the trees on the earth were to become pens

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • → Chagatai: همه (hmh /⁠hämmä⁠/)
  • → Kazakh: әмбе (ämbe)
  • → Salar: hemme
  • → Turkmen: hemme

See also

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References

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  1. ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “hamāg”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 39
  2. ^ Rastorgujeva, V. S.; Edelʹman, D. I. (2007), Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 3, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 351-2

South Levantine Arabic

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Pronoun

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همه • (humme) pl

  1. alternative spelling of هم
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