مرحبا

Related to the verb رَحِبَ (raḥiba, “to be wide”). (The verb رَحَّبَ (raḥḥaba, “to make welcome, to receive graciously”) is derived from this term.)

• IPA^(key): /mar.ħa.ban/, (pausa) /mar.ħa.baː/

مَرْحَبًا • (marḥaban)

1. hello, welcome

• Maltese: merħba
• Moroccan Arabic: مرحبا (marḥba)
• → Afar: marcabá
• → Northern Kurdish: merheba
• → Ottoman Turkish: مرحبا, մէրհապա (merhaba), մէրհապէն (merhaben) — Armeno-Turkish
  • Turkish: merhaba
  • → Bulgarian: мерхаба́ (merhabá), ме́рхаба (mérhaba), мараба́ (marabá)
  • → Macedonian: мерхаба (merhaba)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ме̏рха̄ба

    Latin script: mȅrhāba

  • Turkish: merhaba
• → Classical Persian: مَرْحَبَا (marhabā), مَرْحَبًا (marhaban)
  • Tajik: марҳабо (marhabo) (rare, archaic)
  • → Hindustani:
    • Hindi: मरहबा (marhabā)
    • Urdu: مَرْحَبَا (marhabā)
  • → Bengali: মরহাবা (môrhaba)
  • → Pashto: مرحبا (marḥabā)
  • → Punjabi:
    • Gurmukhi script: ਮਰਹਬਾ (marhabā)
    • Shahmukhi script: مرحبا (marḥabā)
• → Swahili: marahaba
• → Tigrinya: መርሓባ (märḥaba)
• → Zazaki: merheba

From Arabic مَرْحَبًا (marḥaban).

• IPA^(key): /mar.ħa.ba/

مرحبا • (marḥaba)

1. welcome
2. hello

From Arabic مَرْحَبًا (marḥaban).

• IPA^(key): /marħba/

مرحبا • (marḥba)

1. welcome

• մէրհապա (merhaba), մէրհապէն (merhaben) — Armeno-Turkish

From Arabic مَرْحَبًا (marḥaban).

مرحباً • (merhaba)

1. hello, welcome

• Turkish: merhaba
• → Bulgarian: мерхаба́ (merhabá), ме́рхаба (mérhaba), мараба́ (marabá)
• → Macedonian: мерхаба (merhaba)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ме̏рха̄ба

  Latin script: mȅrhāba

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “merhaba”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3151b
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “merhabâ”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 741b
• Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “مرحبا”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 781a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مرحبا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1147b
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “merhaba”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Pōzačean, Yakovbos (1841) “մէրհապա”, in Hamaṙōt baṙaran i tačkakanē i hay [Concise Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary]‎^[3], Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 568b
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مرحبا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1807a
• Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki]‎^[5] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası

Borrowed from Arabic مَرْحَبًا (marḥaban).

مرحبا • (marhabâ)

1. bravo, good job

   Synonyms: آفرین (âfarin), بارک الله (bârek allâh), ماشا الله (mâšâllâh)

2. (archaic) hello, welcome
   • 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 186:

     سلیمی را برآمد جان پی یک مرحبا وز ناز
     نکرد آن سنگدل با دردمندان مرحبا هرگز

     salīmī rā bar-āmad jān pa-yi yak marhabā w-az nāz
     na-kard ān sangdil bā dardmandān marhabā hargiz

     Selim's soul came forth for the sake of a single hello, and out of coquettishness
     That hard-hearted one never said a hello to those in pain [out of unrequited love for her].

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

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

From Arabic مَرْحَبًا (marḥaban).

• IPA^(key): /mar.ħa.ba/, [ˈmɑr.ħɑ.bɑ]

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مرحبا • (marḥaba)

1. hello

   Synonym: (informal) هلا (hala)

• People usually respond to مرحبا (marḥaba) with its dual or plural form:
  • مرحبتين (marḥabtēn, literally “two hellos”)
  • مراحب (marāḥeb, literally “many hellos”)

• أهلا (ʔahla, “welcome”), أهلا وسهلا (ʔahla w-sahla, “welcome”)