همواره
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Persian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (h(')mw'l(-k') /hāmwār(ag)/, “always”)[1]. By surface analysis, هم (ham) + ـواره (-vâre).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ham.wɑː.ˈɾa]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [hæɱ.vɒː.ɹé]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [häɱ.vɔ.ɾǽ]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | hamwāra |
Dari reading? | hamwāra |
Iranian reading? | hamvâre |
Tajik reading? | hamvora |
Adverb
[edit]همواره • (hamvâre)
- always; constantly
- c. 1011, Abu'l-Qāsim Firdawsī, “The reign of Anōshērwān”, in شاهنامه [Book of Kings][1]:
- تو از آز باشی همیشه به رنج
که همواره سیری نیابی ز گنج- tu az āz bāšī hamēša ba ranj
ki hamwāra sērī na-yābī zi ganj - You shall always be in torment from greed,
You shall never find satisfaction from treasure.
- tu az āz bāšī hamēša ba ranj
Further reading
[edit]- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “همواره”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
- ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “hāmwārag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 41