نیکو

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Persian

Etymology

Alternative form of (nik, “good, excellent, nice”)

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading^?	nēkū
Dari reading^?	nēkū
Iranian reading^?	niku
Tajik reading^?	neku

Adjective


Iranian Persian	نیکو
Dari	نیکو
Tajik	неку

نیکو • (niku) (comparative نیکوتَر (niku-tar), superlative نیکوتَرین (niku-tarin))

good, excellent, nice, fair
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3551:
  این نباشد ما چه ارزیم ای جوان
  کی شویم آیین روی نیکوان
  īn nabāšad mā čī arzīm ay jawān
  kay šawīm āyīn-i-rōy-i-nēkū-wān
  If this do not happen, what worth have we, O young man?
  How shall we become a standard for the face of the fair?’

References

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

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