نخوت

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَخْوَة (naḵwa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [nax.ˈwat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [näx.wǽt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [näx.wǽt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [näx.wǽt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [näx.wǽt̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [næx.vǽt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [näχ.vǽt̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	naxwat
Dari reading?	naxwat
Iranian reading?	naxvat
Tajik reading?	naxvat

Noun

نخوت • (naxvat)

1. haughtiness, dignity, pride, vanity
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 23—24:

     شاد باش ای عشق خوش سودای ما
     ای طبیب جمله علتهای ما
     ای دوای نخوت و ناموس ما
     ای تو افلاطون و جالینوس ما

     šād bāš ay išq-i xwaš sawdā-yi mā
     ay tabīb-i jumla illat-hā-yi mā
     ay dawā-yi naxwat u nāmūs-i mā
     ay tu aflātūn u jālīnūs-i mā

     Hail, our sweet-thoughted Love —thou that art the physician of all our ills,
     The remedy of our pride and vainglory, our Plato and our Galen!

     (Classical Persian transliteration)