عمی

See also: عمي, غمی, and عمى

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَمًى (ʕaman).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔa.ˈmaː/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.mɑ́ː]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔä.mɑ́ː]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔä.mɔ́ː]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæ.mɒ́ː]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.mɔ́]

Readings
Classical reading^?	amā
Dari reading^?	amā
Iranian reading^?	amâ
Tajik reading^?	amo

Noun

عمی • (amâ)

(literary, obsolete) blindness
Synonym: کوری (kuri)
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 267:
  این ندانستند ایشان از عمی
  هست فرقی در میان بی‌‌منتها
  īn na-dānistand ēšān az amā
  hast farqē dar miyān bē muntahā
  In [their] blindness they did not perceive that there is an infinite difference between [them].