لحظه

See also: لحظة

Persian

Etymology

    Borrowed from Arabic لَحْظَة (laḥẓa).

    Pronunciation

     

    Readings
    Classical reading? lahza
    Dari reading? lahza
    Iranian reading? lahze
    Tajik reading? lahza

    Noun

    لحظه • (lahze) (plural لحظه‌ها (lahze-hâ), or لحظات (lahazât))

    1. moment
      Synonyms: دم (dam), آن (ân)
      یه لحظه صبر کن ― ye lahze sabr kon ― Wait a moment
      • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 464”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎[1]:
        آن دم که با تو باشم یک سال هست روزی
        وان دم که بی تو باشم یک لحظه هست سالی
        ān dam ki bā tu bāšam yak sāl hast rōzē
        w-ān dam ki bē tu bāšam yak lahza hast sālē
        The little while that I am with you, one year is a day;
        The little while that I am not with you, one moment is a year.
        (Classical Persian transliteration)

    Derived terms

    • لحظه‌به‌لحظه (lahze-be-lahze)
    • لحظه‌شماری (lahze-šomâri)
    • لحظه‌شماری کردن (lahze-šomâri kardan)

    Descendants

    • → Hindustani:
      Hindi: लहज़ा (lahzā)
      Urdu: لَحْظَہ (lahza)

    Further reading

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