همیشه

See also: ہمیشہ

Pashto

Adverb

همیشه • (transliteration needed)

1. always

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (hammēšag), from [script needed] (ham, “same”), and [script needed] (mēšag, “always”), the first component from Proto-Indo-European *somHós. Compare Gilaki همشک (hamešak). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Etymology of "mēšag"?”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ha.meː.ˈʃa/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.meː.ʃá]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.meː.ʃá]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔä.meː.ʃá]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔä.meː.ʃá]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [hæ.miː.ʃé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.me.ʃá]

• Rhymes: -a

Readings
Classical reading?	hamēša
Dari reading?	hamēša
Iranian reading?	hamiše
Tajik reading?	hameša

Adverb

همیشه • (hamēša / hamiše) (Tajik spelling ҳамеша)

1. always

Derived terms

• همیشگی (hamēšagī / hamišegi)

Descendants

• Tajik: ҳамеша (hameša)
• → Armenian: համեշա (hameša)
• → Azerbaijani: həmişə
• → Bengali: হামেশা (hameśa)
• → Chagatai: همیشه (hämēšä)
  • Uyghur: ھەمىشە (hemishe)
  • Uzbek:

    Latin script: hamisha

    Cyrillic script: ҳамиша (hamisha)

    Afghan Uzbek: هَمېشَه (hamesha)

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: हमेशा (hameśā)

  Urdu: ہَمیشَہ (hameśa)

• → Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ھەمیشە (hemîşe)

  Northern Kurdish: hemêşe

• → Pashto: همېشه (hamešá)
• → Punjabi: ਹਮੇਸ਼ਾ (hameśā)
• → Turkmen: hemişe
• → Wakhi: ہمیشہ (hamēša)