عامه

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَامَّة (ʕāmma, “most general part of; common people”)

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔaːm.ˈma/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːm.mä]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːm.mä]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔːm.mä]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒːm.me]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɔm.mä]

Readings
Classical reading^?	āmma
Dari reading^?	āmma
Iranian reading^?	âmme
Tajik reading^?	'omma

Noun


Iranian Persian	عامه
Dari	عامه
Tajik	омма

عامه • ('âmme)

public, populace, common people
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 1392:
  دیده این شاهان ز عامه خوف جان
  کاین گره کورند و شاهان بینشان
  dīda īn šāhān zi 'āmma xawf-i jān
  k-īn guruh kūr-and u šāhān bē-nišān
  These (spiritual) kings have seen (themselves in) danger of their lives from the vulgar;
  for this multitude are blind, and the kings (are) without (a visible) mark.

Descendants

→ Uzbek: omma

References

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “عامه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim