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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Arabic أَعْمَى (ʔaʕmā).
Adjective
اعمی • (ama)
- blind
- (figurative) ignorant
Noun
اعمی • (ama)
- blind person
Descendants
References
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic أَعْمَى (ʔaʕmā).
Pronunciation
| Readings
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| Classical reading?
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a'mā
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| Dari reading?
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a'mā
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| Iranian reading?
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a'mâ
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| Tajik reading?
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aʾmo
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Adjective
اعمی • (a'mâ)
- blind
- Synonyms: کور (kur), نابینا (nâbinâ)
c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 88:کس نبیند بجز از چشم سلیمی رویت
باد از دیدن دیدار تو اعمی لاله- kas na-bēnad ba-juz az čašm-i salīmī rōyat
bād az dīdan-i dīdār-i tō a'mā lāla - Nobody shall see your face, save for Selim's eyes;
May the tulip go blind from the sight of your visage!
- (figurative) ignorant
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “اعمی”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim