مهمان

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See also: مہمان

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian (m(ʾ)hmʾn' /⁠mehmān⁠/, “inhabitant; guest”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meytH- (“to change, exchange”). Cognate with Northern Luri مؽمۏ (mêmö), Pashto مېلمه (melma).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? mihmān
Dari reading? mehmān
Iranian reading? mehmân
Tajik reading? mehmon
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Noun

Dari مهمان
Iranian Persian
Tajik меҳмон

مهمان • (mehmân) (plural مهمانان (mehmânân) or مهمان‌ها (mehmân-hâ))

  1. guest
    Synonym: (archaic) سپنج (sepanj)
    Antonym: میزبان (mizbân, “host”)
    • c. 1380, Jahān Malik Khātūn, “Ghazal 379”, in دیوان جهان [Divān-i Jahān]‎:
      در فراقت دلم به جان آمد
      آمدم یک شبی به مهمانت
      dar firāq-at dil-am ba jān āmad
      āmadam yak šabē ba mihmān-at
      Out of parting from you, my heart came to death's verge;
      Then one night, I came to you as a guest.
      (Classical Persian romanization)
  2. patron of a hotel or restaurant

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References

  • Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) “*¹mait-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 153-4
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