یاوه

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [jɑː.wa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [jɑː.wä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [jɑː.wä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [jɑː.wä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [jɔː.wä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [jɒː.ve]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [jɔ.vä]

Readings
Classical reading?	yāwa
Dari reading?	yāwa
Iranian reading?	yâve
Tajik reading?	yova

Noun

Dari	یاوه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ёва

یاوه • (yâve)

1. idle talk, nonsense

Adjective

یاوه • (yâve) (comparative یاوه‌تَر (yâve-tar), superlative یاوه‌تَرین (yâve-tarin))

1. absurd, foolish
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3254:

     عکس حکمت آن شقی را یاوه کرد
     خود مبین تا بر نیارد از تو گرد

     'aks-i-hakmat ān šaqī rā yāwa kard
     xôd ma-bīn tā bar nayārd az tū gard

     The reflexion of Wisdom led astray that miserable one:
     be not self-conceited, lest it ( raise up the dust from you.

2. vain, futile, idle

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: یاوه

References

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “یاوه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim