مسا

Borrowed from Arabic مَسَاء (masāʔ).

مسا • (masâ) (archaic)

1. evening

   Synonym: عصر (asr)

   Coordinate term: صباح (sabâh)

   • c. 1100, Masʿūd-i Saʿd-i Salmān, “Qaṣīda 1”, in دیوان مسعود سعد سلمان‎^[1]:

     شد دیده تیره و نخورم غم ز بهر آنک
     روزم همه شب است و صباحم همه مسا

     šud dīda tīra u na-xwaram ġam zi bahr-i ān-k
     rōz-am hama šab ast u sabāh-am hama masā

     My eyes have gone dark, but I do not grieve from that because
     All my days are [as dark as] nights and all my mornings [as dark as] evenings

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

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

From Arabic مَسَاء (masāʔ).

• IPA^(key): /ma.sa/, [ˈma.sa]

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مسا • (masa) m

1. evening