همسایه

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (hmsʾdk' /⁠hamsāyag⁠/, “neighbour”), whence also Old Armenian համսայեակ (hamsayeak). By surface analysis, هم‎ (ham, “same”) +‎ سایه‎ (sâye, “shadow, shade”). Cognate with Northern Kurdish hevsî (“neighbour”).

Pronunciation
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  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [häm.sɑː.jǽ]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [ʔäm.sɑː.jǽ]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [ʔäm.sɔː.jǽ]

Readings
Classical reading? hamsāya
Dari reading? hamsāya
Iranian reading? hamsâye
Tajik reading? hamsoya

Noun
Dari Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Iranian Persian
Tajik ҳамсоя

همسایه • (hamsâye) (plural همسایه‌ها‎ (hamsâye-hâ) or همسایگان‎ (hamsâyegân))

  1. neighbour
    ‏کشور همسایه ایران‎ ― kešvar-e hamsâye-ye irân ― neighbor countries of Iran
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3256:
      ‏گر چه در خود خانه نوری یافته ست
      آن ز همسایه‌‌ی منور تافته ست‌‌      ‎
      gar či dar xōd xāna nūr-ī yāfta-st
      ān za hamsāya-i-munavvar tāfta-st
      Although the house (your heart) has found a light within it,
      that (light) has shone forth from an illumined neighbour.

Descendants
  • → Hindustani: hamsāyā
    Hindi: हमसाया
    Urdu: ہمسایَہ‎
  • → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਹਮਸਾਇਆ (hamsāiā)
    Shahmukhi script: ہَمسایَہ‎ (hamsāyah)

References
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “համսայեակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 28b
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 41
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