نگون
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (nkwn' /nigūn/). Akin to Old Armenian նկուն (nkun), an Iranian borrowing.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ni.ɡuːn]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ne.ɡuːn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ni.ɡun]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | nigūn |
Dari reading? | nigūn |
Iranian reading? | negun |
Tajik reading? | nigun |
Dari | نگون |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | нигун |
Adjective
[edit]نگون • (negun)
- turned, inverted, hanging down
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume III, verse 1145:
- عقل جزوی گاه چیره گه نگون
عقل کلی آمن از ریب المنون- aql-i juzwī gāh čīra gah nigūn
aql-i kullī āmin az raybu l-manūn - The particular intellect is sometimes dominant, sometimes overthrown;
the Universal Intellect is secure from the mischances of Time.
- aql-i juzwī gāh čīra gah nigūn
- upside down
Derived terms
[edit]- سرنگون (sarnegun)
Further reading
[edit]- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 59
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “نگون”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul