می

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See also: میـ, مي, and مى

Mazanderani

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Noun

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می (mi)

  1. (anatomy) hair

Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *-mi.

Particle

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می (mi or or mu or )

  1. Used to form interrogatives.

Descendants

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  • Turkish: mi, , mu,
  • Armenian: մը ()

References

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  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

Persian

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Persian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology 1

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From Middle Persian [script needed] (HS) / [script needed] (mdy /⁠may⁠/, wine), from Old Persian *𐎶𐎯 (*m-du /⁠*madu⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *mádu, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mádʰu, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (honey, mead).[1]

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? may
Dari reading? may
Iranian reading? mey
Tajik reading? may

Noun

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Dari می
Iranian Persian
Tajik май

می (mey)

  1. (literary) wine
    Synonyms: شراب (šarâb), (archaic, poetic) باده (bâde), (archaic) مل (mol), (Mughal Empire) رام رنگی (râm rangi), (archaic, poetic) صهبا (sahbâ)
  2. alcoholic beverage
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Azerbaijani:
    Arabic script: مئی
    Cyrillic script: меј
    Latin script: mey
  • Gujarati: મય (maya)
  • Gurani: مه‌ی (may)
  • Kurdish:
    Central Kurdish: مەی (mey)
    Northern Kurdish: mey
  • Hindustani:
    Urdu: مے (mai)
  • Ottoman Turkish: می (may)
  • Pashto: می (may)
  • Uzbek: may

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English May.

Pronunciation

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Readings
Dari reading? may, mē

Proper noun

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Dari می
Iranian Persian مه
Tajik май

می (may, mē)

  1. (Dari) May
See also
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Gregorian calendar months in Persian · مَاه‌هَایِ تَقْوِیمِ گْریگورِی (māh-hā-yi taqwīm-i grēgōrī)
(Dari Persian) (layout · text)
January February March April
جَنْوَرِی (janwarī) فِبْرُوَرِی (fibruwarī),
فَرْوَرِی (farwarī)
مَارْچ (mārč) اَپْریل (aprēl)
May June July August
می () جُون (jūn) جُولَای (jūlāy) اَگَسْت (agast)
September October November December
سِپْتِمْبَر (siptimbar) اَکْتوبَر (aktōbar) نُوِمْبَر (nuwimbar) دِسِمْبَر (disimbar)

Etymology 3

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Alternative form of مگر (magar).

Pronunciation

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Preposition

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می (mey)

  1. (dialectal, Shiraz, Khesht, Konartakhteh, Dashtestan) except

Conjunction

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می (mey)

  1. (dialectal, Shiraz, Kazerun, Khesht, Konartakhteh, Dashtestan) but
  2. (dialectal, Shiraz, Khesht, Kazerun, Konartakhteh, Dashtestan) unless

Etymology 4

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Ultimately Borrowed from Latin mīra, either via French mi or English mi.

Noun

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می (mi)

  1. (music) E, Mi (the third note of the fixed-Do solfège scale)
  2. (music) Mi (the third note of the movable-Do solfège scale, i.e. the mediant)

References

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  1. ^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 116

Southwestern Fars

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Noun

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می (mi)

  1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv) hair

Ushojo

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Adjective

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می ()

  1. mine

Pronoun

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می ()

  1. my