اعمی
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]اعمی • (ama)
Noun
[edit]اعمی • (ama)
- blind person
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: âmâ
References
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “âmâ”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 227
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اعمی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 145
Persian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic أَعْمَى (ʔaʕmā).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ʔaʔ.ˈmɑː]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ʔæʔ.mɒ́ː]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ʔäʔ.mɔ́]
Readings | |
---|---|
Classical reading? | a'mā |
Dari reading? | a'mā |
Iranian reading? | a'mâ |
Tajik reading? | aʾmo |
Adjective
[edit]اعمی • (a'mâ)
- blind
- c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 88:
- کس نبیند بجز از چشم سلیمی رویت
باد از دیدن دیدار تو اعمی لاله- kas na-bēnad ba-juz az čašm-i salīmī rōyat
bād az dīdan-i dīdār-i tō a'mā lāla - Nobody shall see your face, save for Selim's eyes;
May the tulip go blind from the sight of your visage!
- kas na-bēnad ba-juz az čašm-i salīmī rōyat
- (figurative) ignorant
Further reading
[edit]- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “اعمی”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
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