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Pashto
Noun
آهو • (āhu ) m
antelope
wild goat
( poetic ) gazelle
Persian
Pronunciation
Readings
Classical reading?
āhū
Dari reading?
āhū
Iranian reading?
âhu
Tajik reading?
ohu
Etymology 1
From Middle Persian ( /āhūg/ ) , ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱus ( “ sharp, swift ” ) . Cognates with Northern Kurdish ask and Baluchi آسک ( ásk ) .
Noun
Dari
آهو
Iranian Persian
Tajik
оҳу
آهو • (âhu ) (plural آهوان ( âhovân ) or آهوها ( âhuhâ ) )
gazelle
Synonym: غزال ( ğazâl )
( less common ) deer
Synonym: گوزن ( gavazn )
Derived terms
Descendants
Proper noun
آهو • (âhu )
a female given name , Ahu , from Middle Persian
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium .)
Noun
آهو • (âhu )
( archaic ) defect, imperfection
10th Century CE , Ferdowsi , Shahnameh
دو گوش و دو پای من آهو گرفت / تهیدستی و سال نیرو گرفت do guš o do pâye man âhu gereft / tohidasti yo sâl niru gereft My both ears and legs (my body) have grown faulty / and destitution and the old age emerged instead!
Descendants
→ Gilaki: ( åhú )
→ Gujarati: આહૂ ( āhū )
→ Kermanic:
Gazi: ( åhū )
Kafroni: ( åvī́ )
Kesehi: ( ā̊hṻ )
Natanzi: ( åvī́ )
Qohrudi: ( åhū́ )
Vonishuni: ( åhū́ )
Sedehi: ( åhū́ )
Zefrehi: ( åhṻ )
→ Urdu: آہو ( āhū )
→ Lasgerdi: ( āhú )
→ Ormuri: ( āū )
→ Parachi: āhū́
→ Sarikoli: ( āhu )
→ Semnani: āhú
→ Shahmirzadi: ( ā̊hū̆ )
→ Sivandi: ( āhū )
→ Sorkhei: ( ahü )
→ Turkish: Ahu
→ English: ahu
References
Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892 ) “آهو ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary , London: Routledge & K. Paul
Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931– ) “آهو ”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute , editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
MacKenzie, D. N. (1971 ) A concise Pahlavi dictionary , London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 7
Horn, Paul (1893 ) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 15