محبت

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PersianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Arabic مَحَبَّة‏ (maḥabba, “charity, love, affection”). The predominant Persian -o- is due to analogy with the large number of Arabic participles with initial mo- (mu-).

NounEdit

Dari	محبت‏
Iranian Persian	محبت‏
Tajik	маҳаббат, муҳаббат (mahabbat, muhabbat)

محبت • (mohabbat, mahabbat)

1. love
2. affection
3. kindness

ReferencesEdit

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934–1936), “mahabbat”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Beroukhim

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UrduEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Persian محبت‏ (mohabbat), from Arabic مَحَبَّة‏ (maḥabba, “affection”).

NounEdit

محبت • (muhabbat, mohabbat) f (Hindi spelling मुहब्बत or मोहब्बत‏)

1. love
2. affection

SynonymsEdit

• عشق‏ ('išq)
• پریم‏ (prem)
• پیار‏ (pyār)

ReferencesEdit

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “محبت”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884), “محبت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & co.