یاوه
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [jɑː.wa]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [jɒː.ve]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [jɔ.vä]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | yāwa |
Dari reading? | yāwa |
Iranian reading? | yâve |
Tajik reading? | yova |
Noun
[edit]Dari | یاوه |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | ёва |
یاوه • (yâve)
Adjective
[edit]یاوه • (yâve) (comparative یاوهتَر (yâve-tar), superlative یاوهتَرین (yâve-tarin))
- absurd, foolish
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3254:
- عکس حکمت آن شقی را یاوه کرد
خود مبین تا بر نیارد از تو گرد- 'aks-i-hakmat ān šaqī rā yāwa kard
xôd ma-bīn tā bar nayārd az tū gard - The reflexion of Wisdom led astray that miserable one:
be not self-conceited, lest it ( raise up the dust from you.
- 'aks-i-hakmat ān šaqī rā yāwa kard
- vain, futile, idle
Descendants
[edit]- → Ottoman Turkish: یاوه
References
[edit]Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “یاوه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim