یمن

See also: يمن

Ottoman Turkish

یمن

Etymology

From Arabic اَلْيَمَن (al-yaman).

Proper noun

یمن • (yemen)

1. Yemen (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)

Derived terms

• یمن آلاجه‌سی (Yemen alacası, “kind of cloth from Yemen”)
• یمن قهوه‌سی (Yemen kahvesi, “Moka coffee”)
• یمنی (yemeni, “Yemeni”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: Yemen

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یمن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1359
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یمن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 5608
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یمن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2210
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Yemen”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[4], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 808

Persian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic اَلْيَمَن (al-yaman).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ja.ˈman]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [jä.mǽn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [jä.mǽn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [jä.mǽn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [jä.mǽn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [jæ.mǽn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [jä.mǽn]

Readings
Classical reading?	yaman
Dari reading?	yaman
Iranian reading?	yaman
Tajik reading?	yaman

Proper noun

Dari	یمن
Iranian Persian
Tajik	Яман

یمن • (yaman)

1. Yemen (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)

Derived terms

• یمنی (yamani)

 

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic يُمْن (yumn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [jumn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [jʊmn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [jʊmn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [jʊmn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [jumn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [jomn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [jumn]

Readings
Classical reading?	yumn
Dari reading?	yumn
Iranian reading?	yomn
Tajik reading?	yumn

Noun

یمن • (yomn)

1. omen
2. blessing
   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 329”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[5]:

     شعرم به یمن مدح تو صد ملک دل گشاد
     گویی که تیغ توست زبان سخنورم

     ši'ram ba yumn-i madh-i tu sad mulk-i dil gušād
     gūyī ki tēğ-i tu-st zabān-i suxanwaram

     My poetry has conquered the kingdoms of a hundred hearts by the blessing of praising you,
     As if my eloquent tongue should be your blade.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

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

Urdu

Picture dictionary

یمن

ترکی

قبرص

لبنان

شام

فلسطین

اسرائیل

اُردن

مصر

کردستان

عراق

کویت

ایران

سعودی
عرب

بحرین

قطر

متحدہ عرب امارات

عمان

یمن

شام

شام

اسرائیل

اسرائیل

گلیل

گلیل

ہندوستان

ہندوستان

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian یمن (yaman), from Arabic اَلْيَمَن (al-yaman).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /jə.mən/

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• Rhymes: -ən
• Hyphenation: یَ‧مَن

Proper noun

یَمَن • (yaman) m (Hindi spelling यमन)

1. Yemen (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)

See also

• (Middle East) مَشْرِقِ وُسْطیٰ (maśriq-i vustā); سَعُودی عَرَب (sa'ūdī 'arab), مِصْر (misr) عِراق ('irāq), اِیران (īrān), اُرْدُن (urdun), شام (śām), تُرْکِیَہ (turkiya), قِبْرِص (qibris) فِلِسْطِین (filistīn) اِسْرائِیل (isrāīl) لِبْنان (libnān) یَمَن (yaman) عُمان ('umān) مُتَّحِدَہ عَرَب اِمارات (muttahida 'arab imārāt) قَطَر (qatar) بَحْرِین (bahrīn) کُوَیت (kuvait) ^{(Category: ur:Middle East)}