جوانمردی

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Persian

Etymology

Compound of جوان (javân, young) +‎ مردی (mardi, manliness)

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? jawānmardī
Dari reading? jawānmardī
Iranian reading? javânmardi
Tajik reading? javonmardi
Dari جوانمردی
Iranian Persian
Tajik ҷавонмарди

Noun

جوانمردی (javânmardi)

  1. generosity
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume II, verse 376:
      بود شیخی دایما او وامدار
      از جوانمردی که بود آن نامدار
      būd šayx-ē dāyimān ō wām-dār
      az jawārmardī ki būd ān nām-dār
      There was a Shaykh who was continually in debt
      because of the generosity which that illustrious one had.
  2. bravery, manliness, chivalry

References

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