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Persian
Etymology
Through the common Modern Persian metathesis of Middle Persian 𐭧𐭪𐭫𐭰 (ḥklc /hagriz/, “ever, never”), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎣𐎼𐎶𐎨𐎡𐎹 (hakara-mciy, “once”), from earlier (*ha-k(a)r), from Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-kr̥t (“one time”).
Pronunciation
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hargiz
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hargiz
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hargez
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hargiz
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Adverb
هَرگِز • (hargez)
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هرگز
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ҳаргиз
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- (in positive constructions) ever
- Synonym: هیچ‌وقت (hič-vaqt)
آیا هرگز به پاریس رفته‌اید؟ (more literary)- âyâ hargez be pâris rafte-id?
- Have you ever gone to Paris?
c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume II, verse 422:بانگ سگ هرگز رسد در گوش ماه
خاصه ماهی کاو بود خاص اله- bâng-e sag hargez resad dar guš-e mâh
xâsse mâhi k-u bud xâss-e elâh - Does the dog's bark ever reach the moon's ear, especially that Moon who is the chosen of God?
- (in negative constructions) ever; never
- Synonym: هیچ‌وقت (hič-vaqt)
او هرگز سفر نکرده است. (more literary)- u hargez safar na-karde-ast.
اون هرگز سفر نکرده. (more colloquial)- un hargez safar na-karde.
- He has never travelled.
c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume I, verse 826:هرگز ای آتش تو صابر نیستی
چون نسوزی چیست قادر نیستی- hargez ey âtaš to sâber nisti
čon na-suzi či-st qâder nisti - Never, o fire, art thou patient: how burnest thou not? What is it? Hast thou not the power?
1500s, ʿUrfī Shīrāzī, “Ghazal 28”, in دیوان:زخم ها برداشتیم و فتح ها کردیم، لیک
هرگز از خون کسی رنگین نشد میدان ما- zaxm-hâ bardâštim o fath-hâ kardim, lik
hargez az xun-e kasi rangin na-šod meydân-e mâ - We suffered wounds, we scored victories, but our fields were never stained by anybody's blood.
- perpetually (with negative meaning)
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