مهمان
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See also: مہمان
Persian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- میهمان (mihmân)
- مهمون (mehmun) (colloquial)
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (m(ʾ)hmʾn' /mehmān/, “inhabitant; guest”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meytH- (“to change, exchange”). Cognate with Northern Luri مؽمۏ (mêmö), Pashto مېلمه (melma).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [mih.mɑːn]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [meɦ.mɒːn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [meɦ.mɔn]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | mihmān |
Dari reading? | mehmān |
Iranian reading? | mehmân |
Tajik reading? | mehmon |
Noun
[edit]Dari | مهمان |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | меҳмон |
مهمان • (mehmân) (plural مهمانان (mehmânân) or مهمانها (mehmân-hâ))
- guest
- c. 1380, Jahān Malik Khātūn, “Ghazal 379”, in دیوان جهان [Divān-i Jahān][1]:
- در فراقت دلم به جان آمد
آمدم یک شبی به مهمانت- dar firāq-at dil-am ba jān āmad
āmadam yak šabē ba mihmān-at - Out of parting from you, my heart came to death's verge;
Then one night, I came to you as a guest.
- dar firāq-at dil-am ba jān āmad
- patron of a hotel or restaurant
Derived terms
[edit]- مهمانپرست (mehmân-parast)
- مهمانپرستی (mehmân-parasti)
- مهمانپذیر (mehmân-pazir)
- مهمانخانه (mehmânxâne)
- مهماندار (mehmân-dâr)
- مهمان کردن (mehmân kardan)
- مهماننواز (mehmân-navâz)
- مهماننوازی (mehmân-navâzi)
- مهمانی (mehmâni)
Descendants
[edit]- → Armenian: մեհման (mehman)
- → Azerbaijani: mehman
- → Bengali: মেহমান (mehman)
- → Ottoman Turkish: مهمان (mihmân)
- → Turkmen: myhman
- → Hindustani:
References
[edit]- Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) “*¹mait-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 153-4