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Persian
Etymology
From امـ (em, “to-; this”) + شب (šab, “night”), from Middle Persian 𐭫𐭣𐭭𐭤 (ldnh /im/, “this”) + (šp /šab/, “night”). Compare Mazanderani ام شو (am šo, “tonight”),[1] Central Kurdish ئەمشەو (emşew, “tonight”), Northern Kurdish îşev (“tonight”), Pashto نن شپه (nan špa, “tonight”).
Pronunciation
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| Classical reading?
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imšaḇ
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| Dari reading?
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imšab
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| Iranian reading?
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emšab
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| Tajik reading?
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imšab
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Adverb
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امشب
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| Iranian Persian
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| Tajik
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имшаб
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امشب • (emšab)
- tonight
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 105:خواهد سحری رفت بسیر آن شه خوبان
ای دیده مخواب آب زن امشب همه ره را- xwāhad saharē raft ba-sayr ān šah-i xūbān
ay dīda maxwāb āb zan imšab hama rah rā - The king/queen of beauties will leave on a journey at dawn;
O eyes, do not sleep! Pour water on all the roads tonight.
- tonight; this evening
علی قراره امشب برامون بخونه؟- ali qarâr-e emšab barâmun bexune?
- Is Ali going to sing for us tonight?
References
- ^ Talebi, Ali (2012) مشتی از مرواریدهای فراموششدهی مازندران (فرهنگ واژگانی) [A Handful of the Forgotten Pearls of Mazandaran (Dictionary)], Amol, page 71