نبی
See also: نبي
Persian
editEtymology 1
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [na.βiː]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [næ.biː]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [nä.bi]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | naḇī |
Dari reading? | nabī |
Iranian reading? | nabi |
Tajik reading? | nabi |
Noun
editDari | نبی |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | набӣ |
نبی • (nabi)
Etymology 2
editFrom Middle Persian [script needed] (npyk /nibēg/, “writing, scripture, book”). Doublet of نوی (nuwī, niwī) and نپی (nupī, nipī); see نوشتن (neveštan, “to write”) for more.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [nu.βiː], [ ni.βiː]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [no.biː], [ ne.biː]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [nu.bi], [ ni.bi]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | nuḇī, niḇī |
Dari reading? | nubī, nibī |
Iranian reading? | nobi, nebi |
Tajik reading? | nubi, nibi |
Noun
editDari | نبی |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | нибӣ |
نبی • (nebi or nobi)
- (obsolete) codex, scripture, book
- Synonym: مصحف (moshaf)
- (archaic) Qur'an
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 2548:
- در نبی آورد جبریل امین / شرح این زانو زدن را جاثمین
- dar nubī âward Jibrīl-i amīn / šarh-i ēn zânū-zadan râ jâsimīn
- Gabriel, the trusted, brought in the Qur'an the description of this kneeling [by the word] játhimín
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