راه

Persian

Alternative forms

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

 

Readings
Classical reading? rāh
Dari reading? rāh
Iranian reading? râh
Tajik reading? roh
  • Audio (Iran):(file)

Noun

Dari راه
Iranian Persian
Tajik роҳ

راه • (râh) (plural راه‌ها)

  1. road
  2. way
  3. path
  4. intellect, mind

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Hindi: राह (rāh)
  • → Urdu: راہ (rāh)
  • → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਰਾਹ (rāh)
    Shahmukhi script: راه (rāh)

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
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