نوحه

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَوْحَة (nawḥa).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /naw.ˈha/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [näw.hä]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [nä.wä]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [nä.wä]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [now.he]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [näw.hä]

Readings
Classical reading^?	nawha
Dari reading^?	nawha
Iranian reading^?	nowhe
Tajik reading^?	navha


Iranian Persian	نوحه
Dari	نوحه
Tajik	навҳа

Noun

نوحه • (nowhe) (plural نوحه‌ها (nowhe-hâ))

mourning, lamentation, wailing
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 2543:
  ناله از اجزای ایشان می‌‌شنید
  نوحه پیدا نوحه گویان ناپدید
  nāla az ajzā-yi ēšān mē-šinīd
  nawha paydā nawha gōyān nā-padīd
  He heard wailing from their limbs:
  the lamentation was plain, those who uttered it (were) invisible.

References

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