کنار
See also: كنار
Persian edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Persian [script needed] (knʾl /kanār/, “side, edge”), from a metathesis of کران (karân, “border, edge”).[1][2]
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ka.ˈnɑːɾ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [kʰʲe.nɒ́ːɹ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [kʰä.nɔ́ɾ]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | kanār |
Dari reading? | kanār |
Iranian reading? | kenâr |
Tajik reading? | kanor |
Noun edit
کِنار • (kenâr)
- side
- edge; limit; boundary
- shore, coast
- Synonym: ساحل (sâhel)
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume VI, verse 3881:
- علم دریاییست بیحد و کنار
طالب علمست غواص بحار- ilm daryāyē-st bē-hadd u kanār
tālib-i ilm ast ğawwās-i bihār - Knowledge is an ocean without bounds or shore: the seeker of knowledge is the diver in [those] seas.
- ilm daryāyē-st bē-hadd u kanār
- (poetic) embrace, hug; (metonymically) chest, bosom
- Synonym: آغوش (âğuš)
- بوس و کنار ― bus o kenâr ― kissing and embracing
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 93:
- دست بگشاد و کنارانش گرفت
همچو عشق اندر دل و جانش گرفت- dast bugšād u kinārān-aš girift
hamčō išq andar dil u jān-aš girift - He opened his hands and clasped him to his breast and received him, like love, into his heart and soul.
- dast bugšād u kinārān-aš girift
Derived terms edit
- کناره (kenâre)
Descendants edit
- → Bengali: কিনার (kinār)
- → Gujarati: કિનાર (kinār)
- → Hindustani:
- → Kazakh: қанар (qanar)
- → Russian: кана́р (kanár)
- → Old Anatolian Turkish: كنار (känar)
- → Punjabi:
- → Uzbek: qanor
- → Russian: кана́р (kanár)
Preposition edit
کِنارِ • (kenâr-e)
- next to, besides
- آیا میتوانیم کنار پنجره بنشینیم؟ (literary)
- âyâ mi-tavânim kenâr-e panjere be-nešinim?
- Can we sit next to the window?
- میشه کنار پنجره بشینیم؟ (colloquial)
- mi-še kenâr-e panjere be-šinim?
- Can we sit next to the window?
Adverb edit
کِنار • (kenâr)
References edit
- ^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2011) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 4, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 287
- ^ Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 424
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (kunār). Compare Classical Syriac ܟܢܪܐ (kənārā), Old Armenian քնարուկ (kʻnaruk), Late Koine Greek κόνναρος (kónnaros), Iranian borrowings. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun edit
کنار • (konâr)
- Ziziphus, especially of species Ziziphus spina-christi
References edit
- Monchi-Zadeh, Davoud (1990) Wörter aus Xurāsān und ihre Herkunft (Acta Iranica; 29)[1] (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 19–20 fn. 17