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Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَسَاء (masāʔ).
Pronunciation
Readings
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Classical reading?
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masā
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Dari reading?
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masā
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Iranian reading?
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masâ
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Tajik reading?
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maso
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Noun
مسا • (masâ) (archaic)
- evening
- Synonym: عصر (asr)
- Coordinate term: صباح (sabâh)
c. 1100, Masʿūd-i Saʿd-i Salmān, “Qaṣīda 1”, in دیوان مسعود سعد سلمان:شد دیده تیره و نخورم غم ز بهر آنک
روزم همه شب است و صباحم همه مسا- šud dīda tīra u na-xwaram ğam zi bahr-i ān-k
rōz-am hama šab ast u sabāh-am hama masā - My eyes have gone dark, but I do not grieve from that because
All my days are nights and all my mornings evenings
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “مسا”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
South Levantine Arabic
Etymology
From Arabic مَسَاء (masāʔ).
Pronunciation
Noun
مسا • (masa) m
- evening
See also
- (times of day) أوقات اليوم (ʔawʔāt il-yōm); نهار (nhār, “daytime”), فجر (fajr, “dawn”), صبحية (ṣabaḥiyye, “early morning”), صبح (ṣubḥ, “morning”), ضهر (ḍuhr, “noon”), عصر (ʕaṣr, “late afternoon”), مغرب (maḡreb, “sunset”), مسا (masa, “evening”), ليل (lēl, “nighttime”) (Category: ajp:Times of day)