محو

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Arabic

Root
م ح و (m ḥ w)
7 terms

Etymology

Verbal noun of مَحَا (maḥā).

Pronunciation

Noun

مَحْو • (maḥw) m

  1. verbal noun of مَحَا (maḥā) (form I)
  2. (uncountable) wiping, erasure
  3. (uncountable) elimination

Declension

Declension of noun مَحْو (maḥw)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal مَحْو
maḥw 		الْمَحْو
al-maḥw 		مَحْو
maḥw
Nominative مَحْوٌ
maḥwun 		الْمَحْوُ
al-maḥwu 		مَحْوُ
maḥwu
Accusative مَحْوًا
maḥwan 		الْمَحْوَ
al-maḥwa 		مَحْوَ
maḥwa
Genitive مَحْوٍ
maḥwin 		الْمَحْوِ
al-maḥwi 		مَحْوِ
maḥwi

Descendants

  • → Azerbaijani: məhv
  • Kurdish:
    → Central Kurdish: مەفح (mefḧ)
  • → Persian: محو (mahv)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: محو (mahv)
  • → Uzbek: mahv

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَحْو (maḥw).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? mahw
Dari reading? mahw
Iranian reading? mahv
Tajik reading? mahv

Noun

محو • (mahv)

  1. erasure, effacement, wiping away
    • 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 115:
      تا نشد مردم چشمم برخت محو وفا
      دردمندانه بخلوتگه عزلت بنشست
      tā našud mardum-i čašmam ba-ruxat mahw-i wafā
      dardmandāna ba-xalwatgah-i uzlat binišast
      Until my eyes' pupils were erased of fidelity for your face,
      They sat painfully in a solitary place of seclusion.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  2. abolition, elimination
  3. absorption, fascination (to the point of eliminating one's sense of self)
    • 1177, Farīd ud-Dīn ʿAṭṭār, “The tale of the nightingale”, in منطق‌الطیر [The Conference of the Birds]‎:
      من چنان در عشق گل مستغرقم
      کز وجود خویش محو مطلقم
      man čunān dar išq-i gul mustağraq-am
      k-az wujūd-i xwēš mahw-i mutlaq-am
      I am so drowned in love for the rose
      That I am absolutely erased from my own existence.
      (Classical romanization)
  4. (Sufism) absorption of the human self into God

Derived terms

Further reading

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