مخفی

See also: محقي and مخفي

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَخْفِيّ (maḵfiyy).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /max.ˈfiː/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäx.fíː]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mäx.fíː]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mäx.fí]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæx.fíː]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mäχ.fí]

Readings
Classical reading^?	maxfī
Dari reading^?	maxfī
Iranian reading^?	maxfi
Tajik reading^?	maxfi

Adjective

مخفی • (maxfi)

secret, hidden
Synonyms: پنهان (penhân), نهان (nehân)
- c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 84:
  هم بحق جمله اولاد و اصحاب کبار
  کز خردشان نیست مخفی آشکارا و نهان
  ham ba-haqq-i jumla-yi awlād u ashāb-i kibār
  k-az xiradišān nēst maxfī āškārā u nihān
  Also, [I swear] by all of his [the Prophet's] great descendants and companions,
  From whose wisdom nothing is hidden, whether public or secret.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

مخفی کردن (maxfi kardan, “to hide, to conceal”)

Further reading

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