یعنی
Persian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Arabic يَعْنِي (yaʕnī).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [jaʔ.niː], [jaʔ.neː]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [jæʔ.niː]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [jäʔ.ne]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | ya'nī, ya'nē |
Dari reading? | ya'nī, ya'nē |
Iranian reading? | ya'ni |
Tajik reading? | yaʾne |
Verb
editDari | یعنی |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | яъне |
یعنی • (ya'ni)
- (transitive) [he/she/it] means
Interjection
editیعنی • (ya'ni)
- (adverbial, conjunctive, prepositional, or adjectival) in other words, actually, namely, to wit, kind of, somewhat, id est, that is, meaning, you know
- c. 1004–1088, Nasir Khusraw, سفرنامه [Safarnama]:
- [...] و از آنجا به شهر حماة شدیم، شهری خوش، آبادان بر لب آب عاصی و این آب را از آن سبب عاصی گویند که به جانب روم میرود، یعنی چون از بلاد اسلام به بلاد کفر میرود، عاصی است
- [...] wa az ānjā ba šahr-i hamāh šudēm, šahrē xwaš, ābādān bar lab-i āb-i āsī wa īn āb-rā az ān sabab āsī gōyand ki ba jānib-i rūm mē-rawad, ya'nē čūn az bilād-i islām ba bilād-i kufr mē-rawad, āsī ast
- [...] and from there we went to the city of Hama, a pleasant city, by the side of the Asi [Sinful] River and this river is called Sinful because it is flowing toward Rome [the Byzantine Empire], that is to say, since it is going from the land of Islam to the land of kufr, it is sinful
- (filler) er, so, uh, well
Anagrams
edit- عینی ('eyni)
Urdu
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Classical Persian یَعْنِی (ya'nī), from Arabic يَعْنِي (yaʕnī).
Pronunciation
editConjunction
editیَعْنی • (yā'nī) (Hindi spelling यानी)
- (transitive) [he/she/it] means
Interjection
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