صبی

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَبِيّ (ṣabiyy).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [sa.βiː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sä.biː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sä.biː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sä.biː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [sä.bi]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sæ.biː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [sä.bi]

Readings
Classical reading?	saḇī
Dari reading?	sabī
Iranian reading?	sabi
Tajik reading?	sabi

Noun

صبی • (sabi) (literary)

1. boy, lad, youth

   Coordinate term: صبیه (sabiyye)

Further reading

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “صبی”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “صبی”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “صبی”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim