راه
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Persian
Alternative forms
- ره (rah)
Etymology
From Middle Persian lʾs (/rāh/, “road, way”) from Proto-Iranian *Hrāθáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hrātʰás, from Proto-Indo-European *Hret-. Compare Old Armenian ռահ (ṙah), borrowed from Middle Iranian.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key):
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key):
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key):
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | rāh |
| Dari reading? | rāh |
| Iranian reading? | râh |
| Tajik reading? | roh |
Noun
| Dari | راه |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | роҳ |
راه • (râh) (plural راهها (râh-hâ))
Derived terms
- شاهراه (šâhrâh)
Related terms
Descendants
References
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “rāh”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 70
- Edelʹman, D. I. (2020) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 6, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 388