بیگانه

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Persian

Etymology

Cognate to Northern Kurdish biyanî.

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? bēgāna
Dari reading? bēgāna
Iranian reading? bigâne
Tajik reading? begona

Adjective

بیگانه (bigâne)

  1. foreign, alien
  2. strange, exotic, unfamiliar

Noun

بیگانه (bigâne) (plural بیگانگان (bigânegân) or بیگانه‌ها (bigâne-hâ))

  1. outsider
  2. foreigner
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume II, verse 263:
      در زمین مردمان خانه مکن
      کار خود کن کار بیگانه مکن
      dar zamīn-i mardumān xāne ma-kun
      kār-i xwad kun kār-i bēgāna ma-kun
      Do not make your home in (other) men's land:
      do your own work, don't do the work of a stranger.

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