پگاه

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [pa.ɡɑːh]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰä.ɡɑːʱ]

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

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰæ.ɡɒːʱ], [pʰe.ɡɒːʱ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰä.ɡɔʱ]

Readings
Classical reading?	pagāh
Dari reading?	pagāh
Iranian reading?	pagâh, pegâh
Tajik reading?	pagoh

Noun

پگاه • (pegâh, pagâh)

1. dawn
2. morning
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 673:

     بر نشستی اشترم را از پگاه
     جو رها کردم کم از اخراج کاه‏

     bar nišastī ušturam-rā az pagāh
     jaw rahā kardam kam az axrāj-i kāh

     You have ridden on my camel since early morning:
     I (will) let the barley go, (but I will not take) less than the cost of (some) straw.”

Proper noun

پگاه • (pegâh)

1. a female given name, Pegah

References

• Hayyim, Sulayman. New Persian-English dictionary, complete and modern, designed to give the English meanings of over 50,000 words, terms, idioms, and proverbs in the Persian language, as well as the transliteration of the words in English characters. Together with a sufficient treatment of all the grammatical features of the Persian Language. [Teheran, Librairie-imprimerie Beroukhim] 1934-1936.