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Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian hmʾk' (hamāg, “all”),[1] from Proto-Iranian *hama-ka-, from Proto-Iranian *ham- (“together”).[2] Akin to Old Armenian համակ (hamak), an Iranian borrowing. Compare Central Kurdish ھەموو (hemû) and Northern Kurdish hemû, hemî.
Pronunciation
- (pronoun) IPA(key): /hæˈme/
- (adjective) IPA(key): /hæˈmeje/
- Rhymes: -e
Pronoun
همه • (hame)
- all
- everyone
Adjective
همهٔ • (hame-ye)
- all, every
همهٔ ما خیلی خوشحالیم.- hame-ye mâ xeyli xošhâlim.
- All of us are very happy.
همهٔ این کتابا رو خوندهام. (more colloquial)- hame-ye in ketâb-â-ro xundam.
- I've read all of these books.
(Can we date this quote?), Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, “Surah Luqman, 31:27”, in Translation of the Qur'an:و اگر همه درختان روی زمین قلم شود- va agar hame-ye deraxtân-e ru-ye zamin qalam šavad
- and if all the trees on the earth were to become pens
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References
- ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “hamāg”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 39
- ^ Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2007) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 3, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 351-2
South Levantine Arabic
Pronoun
همه • (humme) pl
- Alternative spelling of هم