جبهه

See also: جبهة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَبْهَة (jabha).

Noun

جبهه • (cebhe)

1. front
2. (military) front
   • 1927 October, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nutuk‎^[1], page 341:

     یونان تعرضی و ملی جبهه‌لرك بوزولمسی ، مجلسده بیوك بحرانی و شدتلی تعریضات و تنقیداتی موجب اولدی.

     Yunan ta'arruzu ve milli cebheleriñ bozulması, mecliste büyük buhranı ve şiddetli ta'rizatı ve tenkidatı mucib oldu.

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Descendants

• Turkish: cephe

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جبهه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 435

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَبْهَة (jabha).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒaβ.ˈha]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒäb.hǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒäb.hǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒä.bǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒä.bǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒeb.hé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒäb.hǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	jaḇha
Dari reading?	jabha
Iranian reading?	jebhe
Tajik reading?	jabha

Noun

جبهه • (jebhe) (plural جبهه‌ها (jebhe-hâ) or جباه)

1. front, face, façade
2. (military) frontline, battlefront
3. (anatomy, dated) forehead, brow

   Synonym: پیشانی (pišâni)

   • early 1400s, Qāsim-i Anvār, “Ghazal 299”, in دیوان قاسم انوار‎^[3]:

     آنها که کمالات و جمالات تو دیدند
     بر خاک همه جبهه تسلیم نهادند

     ānhā ki kamālāt u jamālāt-i tu dīdand
     bar xāk hama jabha-yi taslīm nihādand

     Those who have seen Your perfections and glories
     Have all laid down their brows to the earth in submission.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)