نخ

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? nax
Dari reading? nax
Iranian reading? nax
Tajik reading? nax

Noun

Dari نخ
Iranian Persian
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نخ • (nax) (plural نخ‌ها (nax-hâ))

  1. thread, string
    یک رشته نخ ― yek rešte-ye nax ― single thread of string
    سر نخ ― sar-e nax ― tip of the string
    نخ رنگی ― nax-e rangi ― colored thread
    نخ ابریشم ― nax-e abrišam ― silk thread
    • 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 136:
      بی سر زلف تو شد رشته جانم نخ نخ
      که رود از مژه‌ها اشک روانم نخ نخ
      bē sar-i zulf-i tō šud rišta-yi jānam nax nax
      ki rawad az muža-hā ašk-i rawānam nax nax
      Without your locks of hair, the string of my life in threads,
      For my tears are flowing out of my eyelashes in streams.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

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Etymology

From Persian نخ (nax).

Noun

نخ (nax)

  1. mark, signal
  2. target, goal
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