نه

See also: نہ, به, ته, بہٕ, په, پہ, and تۀ

Gilaki

Numeral

نه (no)

1. nine

Khalaj

Etymology 1

Adverb

نه (nə)

1. Arabic spelling of nə (“what a, how, why”)

Etymology 2

Conjunction

نه...نه... (nə ... nə ...)

1. Arabic spelling of nə (“neither; nor”)

Mazanderani

Numeral

نه (ne)

1. nine

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *nē-

Pronoun

نَه (nä)

1. (interrogative) what
2. (fused relative) that which, the thing that.

   دَدَه قُرْقُوتْ صُويْلَامِشْ، كُرَلُمْ خَانُمْ نَه صُويْلَامِشْ: [...]

   dede ḳorḳut soylamış, görälüm ḫānum nä soylamış: [...]

   Dede Korkut said, let us see, my lord, what he said: [...]

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: nə
• Gagauz: ne
• Ottoman Turkish: نه (ne)
  • Turkish: ne

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian نه.

Conjunction

نَه ... نَه ... (nä ... nä ...)

1. neither ... nor ...

   نَه آنْ نَه بَنْ

   nä an nä bän

   neither me nor him

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: nə
• Gagauz: ne
• Ottoman Turkish: نه (ne)
  • Turkish: ne

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Old Anatolian Turkish نَه (nä), fromProto-Turkic *nē- (“what”).

Pronoun

نه • (ne)

1. what

Descendants

• Turkish: ne

Adverb

نه • (ne)

1. what

Descendants

• Turkish: ne

Etymology 2

From Persian نه (na).

Conjunction

نه • (ne)

1. neither; nor

Descendants

• Turkish: ne

Pashto

Pashto cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : نه

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *Hnáwa, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnáwa, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nə/

Numeral

نه • (në)

1. nine

Persian

Alternative forms

• نع (na') (nonstandard)

Etymology 1

Inherited from Classical Persian نی (nē), see there for more.

Pronunciation

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [næ]
• (all other standards) IPA^(key): [na]

Adverb

Dari	نه, نی
Iranian Persian	نه
Tajik	не, на

نَه • (na)

1. not
2. (informal) no

Particle

نَه • (na)

1. (informal) no

Synonyms

• نخیر (na-xeyr)
• خیر (xeyr)
• (slang) نچ (noč)

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian [script needed] (nwk' /⁠nōg⁠/), from Old Persian 𐎴𐎺 (n-v /⁠nava⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *Hnáwa, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnáwa, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥. Cognate to English nine.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [nuh]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [no̞ʱ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [no̞ʱ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [nʊ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [nu]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [noʱ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [nɵʰ], [nɵʰ]

Readings
Classical reading?	nuh
Dari reading?	noh
Iranian reading?	noh
Tajik reading?	nuh, nüh

1. nine

Numeral

Persian numbers ^(edit)

	90
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Cardinal: نُه (noh)     Ordinal: نهم (nohom)

Dari	نه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	нуҳ, нӯҳ

نُه • (noh) (Persian numeral ۹)

Sindhi

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit न (na).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nə]

Adverb

نه • (na) (Devanagari न)

1. not

References

• Khānu, Balocu (1960–1988) “نه”, in Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāta (in Sindhi), Hyderabad, Sindh: Sindhī Adabī Borḍ