محبت
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See also: محبة
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian مُحَبَّت (muhabbat), from Arabic مَحَبَّة (maḥabba, “love”).
Noun
محبت • (muhabbet)
Descendants
- Turkish: muhabbet
- → Albanian: muhabet
- → Aromanian: muabeti
- → Armenian: մուհապէթ (muhapētʻ)
- → Greek: μουχαμπέτι (mouchampéti)
- → Ladino: moabet
- → Macedonian: муабет (muabet)
- → Pontic Greek: μουχαμπέτι (mouchampéti)
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “محبت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1126
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “muhabbet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 805
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “محبت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1774
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَحَبَّة (maḥabba, “love”). The predominant shift of the first vowel from /a/ to /u/ is due to analogy with the large number of Arabic participles with initial /mu/ such as مهندس (muhandis, mohandes, “engineer”), محاربه (muhāraba, mohârabe, “war”) etc.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): ,
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): ,
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): ,
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | muhaḇḇat, mahaḇḇat |
| Dari reading? | mohabbat, mahabbat |
| Iranian reading? | mohabbat, mahabbat |
| Tajik reading? | muhabbat, mahabbat |
Noun
| Dari | محبت |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | маҳаббат, муҳаббат |
مُحَبَّت or مَحَبَّت • (mohabbat or mahabbat)
Descendants
- → Bashkir: мөхәббәт (möxəbbət)
- → Bengali: মহব্বত (mohobbot)
- → Gujarati: મોહબત (mohbat)
- → Hindustani:
- → Malayalam: മുഹബ്ബത്ത് (muhabbattŭ)
- → Ottoman Turkish: محبت (muḥabbet)
- Turkish: muhabbet
- → Albanian: muhabet
- → Aromanian: muabeti
- → Armenian: մուհապէթ (muhapētʻ)
- → Greek: μουχαμπέτι (mouchampéti)
- → Ladino: moabet
- → Macedonian: муабет (muabet)
- → Pontic Greek: μουχαμπέτι (mouchampéti)
- → Punjabi:
- → Tatar: мәхәббәт (mäxäbbät)
- → Uyghur: مۇھەببەت (muhebbet)
- → Uzbek: muhabbat, муҳаббат (muhabbat)
References
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “محبت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian مُحَبَّت (muhabbat), from Arabic مَحَبَّة (maḥabba).
Pronunciation
Noun
مَحَبَّت or مُحَبَّت • (mahabbat or muhabbat) f (Hindi spelling मोहब्बत or मुहब्बत)
Declension
| Declension of محبت | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| direct | مُحَبَّت (muhabbat) | مُحَبَّتیں (muhabbatẽ) | ||||||
| oblique | مُحَبَّت (muhabbat) | مُحَبَّتوں (muhabbatõ) | ||||||
| vocative | مُحَبَّت (muhabbat) | مُحَبَّتو (muhabbato) | ||||||
Synonyms
Further reading
- “محبت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “محبت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “محبت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “محبت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “محبت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “محبت”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC