بیگانه

Persian

Etymology

Cognate to Northern Kurdish biyanî.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [beː.ɡɑː.na]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [beː.ɡɑː.nä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [beː.ɡɑː.nä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [beː.ɡɑː.nä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [beː.ɡɔː.nä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [biː.ɡɒː.ne]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [be.ɡɔ.nä]

Readings
Classical reading?	bēgāna
Dari reading?	bēgāna
Iranian reading?	bigâne
Tajik reading?	begona

Adjective

بیگانه • (bigâne)

1. foreign, alien
2. strange, exotic, unfamiliar

Noun

بیگانه • (bigâne) (plural بیگانگان (bigânegân) or بیگانه‌ها (bigâne-hâ))

1. outsider
2. foreigner
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 263:

     در زمین مردمان خانه مکن
     کار خود کن کار بیگانه مکن‏

     dar zamīn-i mardumān xāne ma-kun
     kār-i xwad kun kār-i bēgāna ma-kun

     Do not make your home in (other) men's land:
     do your own work, don't do the work of a stranger.

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: biganə
• → Bengali: বেগানা (begana)
• → Gujarati: બેગાના (begānā)
• → Old Hindi: बेगांनां (begā̃nā̃)
  • Hindustani:

    Hindi: बेगाना (begānā)

    Urdu: بیگانَہ (begānā)

• → Old Punjabi: ਬੇਗਾਨਾ (begānā), ਬਿਗਾਨਾ (bigānā, “strange, odd, unrelated, alien”)
  • Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਬਿਗਾਨਾ (bigānā)

    Shahmukhi script: بِگانہ (bigānh)

• → Sindhi:

  Arabic script: ويڳاڻو

  Devanagari script: वेॻाणो