عامه

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَامَّة (ʕāmma, “most general part of; common people”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːm.ma]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːm.mä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːm.mä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːm.mä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔːm.mä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒːm.me]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɔm.mä]

Readings
Classical reading?	āmma
Dari reading?	āmma
Iranian reading?	âmme
Tajik reading?	omma

Noun

Dari	عامه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ъомма

عامه • ('âmme)

1. public, populace, common people
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 1392:

     دیده این شاهان ز عامه خوف جان
     کاین گره کورند و شاهان بی‏نشان‏

     dīda īn šāhān zi 'āmma xawf-i jān
     k-īn guruh kūr-and u šāhān bē-nišān

     These (spiritual) kings have seen (themselves in) danger of their lives from the vulgar;
     for this multitude are blind, and the kings (are) without (a visible) mark.

References

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “عامه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim