ملیح

See also: مليح

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic مَلِيح (malīḥ).

Adjective

ملیح • (melih) (feminine ملیحه (meliha))

1. beautiful, pretty, cute
2. gentle, civilized, well-mannered

Descendants

• Turkish: Melih

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ملیح”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1223

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَلِيح (malīḥ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ma.ˈliːh]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mä.líːʱ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mä.líːʱ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mä.líː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mä.lí]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæ.líːʰ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mä.léʱ]

Readings
Classical reading?	malīh
Dari reading?	malīh
Iranian reading?	malih
Tajik reading?	malih

Adjective

ملیح • (malih)

1. beautiful, fair, pretty, graceful, lovely, elegant, handsome
   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 287”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[2]:

     شیوه و ناز تو شیرین خط و خال تو ملیح
     چشم و ابروی تو زیبا قد و بالای تو خوش

     šēwa u nāz-i tu šīrīn xat u xāl-i tu malīh
     čašm u abrū-yi tu zēbā qad u bālā-yi tu xwaš

     Your glances and flirting are sweet, your down of mustache and beauty mark are pretty,
     Your eyes and eyebrows are beautiful, your stature and height are pleasing.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “ملیح”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim