مه

Onomatopoeic.

مَهْ or مَهٍ • (mah or mahin)

1. (defective) Stop!

   مَهْ عَنْ إِطْلَاقِ ٱلشَّائِعَاتِ الخَبِيثةِ.

   mah ʕan ʔiṭlāqi š-šāʔiʕāti l-ḵabīṯati.

   Stop starting malicious rumors.

مه (form I)

1. مُهْ (muh) /muh/: second-person masculine singular imperative of مَاهَ (māha)
2. مِهْ (mih) /mih/: second-person masculine singular imperative of مَاهَ (māha)
3. مَهْ (mah) /mah/: second-person masculine singular imperative of مَاهَ (māha)

Borrowed from French mai, from Latin (mēnsis) Māius.

مه (mə)

1. (South Azerbaijani) May

• (Gregorian calendar months): ژانویه (janviyə), فئوریه (fevriyə), مارس (mars), آوریل (avril), مه (mə), ژوئن (juən), ژوئیه (juiyə), اوت (ut), سئپتامبر (septambr), اوْکتوْبر (oktobr), نوْوامبر (novambr), دئسامبر (desambr)

مه (me)

1. my

مه • (mah)

1. (poetic) alternative form of ماه (mâh, “moon”)

• روزمه (ruzmah)
• مهتاب (mahtâb)
• مهشید (mahšid)
• مهوش (mahvaš)
• مهرو (mahru)

Inherited from Proto-Iranian *HmíčaH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hmíkš, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃meygʰ-.

Cognates with English mist, Vedic Sanskrit मिह् (mih, “fog, mist”), Ancient Greek ὀμίχλη (omíkhlē, “fog, mist”), Polish mgła (“fog, mist, haze”), and Lithuanian miglà (“mist, haze”). Related to میغ (mēġ / miġ).

• Rhymes: -eh (In Iran)

مه • (meh)

1. fog, mist

   Synonym: میغ (miġ)

Borrowed from French mai, from Latin (mēnsis) Māius.

مه • (me)

1. (Iran) May

   Synonym: می (mey)

• (5th month of the solar Persian calendar): مرداد (mordâd)

From Middle Persian 𐫖𐫏𐫆 (myẖ /⁠meh⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *majā́, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *maȷ́ʰā́, from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“great”). Cognate with English mickle, much, Latin magnus.

• IPA^(key): /meh/

مه • (meh)

1. (archaic) big, great, mickle

مه • (meh) (plural مهان (mehân))

1. (archaic) big, great, mickle

• که (keh)

• مهتر (mehtar)
• مه‌مانگ (meh-mâng)
• مه‌بانگ (meh-bâng)

From Middle Persian 𐫖𐫀 (mʾ /⁠ma⁠/), from Old Persian 𐎶𐎠 (m-a /⁠mā⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *máH, Proto-Indo-Iranian *máH, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₁.

• IPA^(key): /mæ/

مه • (ma)

1. (rare) prohibitive particle
   میازار موری که دانه‌کش است که جان دارد و جان شیرین خوش است

   mayâzâr muri ke dâne-keš ast ke jân dârad o jâne širin xoš ast

   Do not harass the ant that carries the seed, for it has life, and sweet life is happiness

• مـ (ma-)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Dari) IPA^(key): /ma/
• (Herati) IPA^(key): /mə/
• (Sistani) IPA^(key): /me/

مه • (ma, me) (various regions)

1. colloquial form of من (man)

   مه نمی‌فامم ― ma namē-fāmum ― I don't understand (Dari, colloquial)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “مه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Horn, Paul (1893) “me”, in Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 998, page 224
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “مه”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 1235a