بیگانه

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Persian

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Etymology

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Cognate to Northern Kurdish biyanî.

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? bēgāna
Dari reading? bēgāna
Iranian reading? bigâne
Tajik reading? begona

Adjective

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بیگانه (bigâne)

  1. foreign, alien
  2. strange, exotic, unfamiliar

Noun

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بیگانه (bigâne) (plural بیگانگان (bigânegân) or بیگانه‌ها (bigâne-hâ))

  1. outsider
  2. foreigner
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume II, verse 263:
      در زمین مردمان خانه مکن
      کار خود کن کار بیگانه مکن
      dar zamīn-i mardumān xāne ma-kun
      kār-i xwad kun kār-i bēgāna ma-kun
      Do not make your home in (other) men's land:
      do your own work, don't do the work of a stranger.

Descendants

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