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Persian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [jɑː]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [jɒː]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [jɔ]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | yā |
Dari reading? | yā |
Iranian reading? | yâ |
Tajik reading? | yo |
Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾywp /ayāb/), Manichaean script: 𐫀𐫏𐫀𐫁 (ʾyʾb /ayāb/). Cognate with Parthian 𐫀𐫃𐫀𐫖 (ʾgʾm /āgām/). Further etymology unclear; not found in Old Persian.
Conjunction
[edit]Dari | یا |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | ё |
یا • (yâ)
- or
- امروز یا فردا میروید؟ (more literary)
- emruz yâ fardâ mi-ravid?
- امرو یا فردا میرین؟ (more colloquial)
- emru yâ fardâ mi-rin?
- Are you going today or tomorrow?
- c. 1390, Hafez, “Ghazal 12”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Hafez][1]:
- عزم دیدار تو دارد جانِ بر لب آمده
باز گردد یا برآید؟ چیست فرمان شما؟- azm-i dîdâr-i tu dârad jân-i bar lab âmada
bâz gardad yâ bar-âyad? čî-st farmân-i šumâ? - My soul, resolved to see you, has come to the edge;
Shall it go back, or come forth? Which do you command?
- azm-i dîdâr-i tu dârad jân-i bar lab âmada
- either
- یا امروز یا فردا
- yâ emruz yâ fardâ
- either today or tomorrow
Descendants
[edit]- → Arabic:
- → Azerbaijani: ya
- → Bashkir: йә (yə)
- → Hindustani:
- → Kannada: ಯಾ (yā)
- → Ottoman Turkish: یا (ya)
- Turkish: ya
- → Turkmen: ýa
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic يَا (yā).
Interjection
[edit]Dari | یا |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | ё |
یا • (yâ)
Southern Kurdish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronoun
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یا (ya)
- Alternative form of ئەۊ (eẅ)
Etymology 2
[edit]Northern Kurdish | yan |
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Central Kurdish | یان (yan) |
Preposition
[edit]یا (ya)
Urdu
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /jɑː/
Etymology 1
[edit]From Classical Persian یا (yā).
Conjunction
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Interjection
[edit]یا • (yā)
- oh!
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