همسایه

Persian

Alternative forms

همساده (hamsâde) (dialectal, Isfahan, Shiraz, Kazerun, Bushehr)
همسده (hamseda) (dialectal, Mashhad)

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (hmsʾdk' /⁠hamsāyag⁠/, “neighbour”), whence also Old Armenian համսայեակ (hamsayeak). By surface analysis, (ham, “same”) +‎ (sâye, “shadow, shade”). Cognate with Northern Kurdish hevsî (“neighbour”), Talysh hamusiyə (“neighbour”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ham.saː.ˈja/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [häm.sɑː.jǽ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔäm.sɑː.jǽ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔäm.sɔː.jǽ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [hæm.sɒː.jé]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [häm.sɔ.jǽ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	hamsāya
Dari reading^?	hamsāya
Iranian reading^?	hamsâye
Tajik reading^?	hamsoya

Audio (Iran): (file)

Noun


Iranian Persian	همسایه
Dari	همسایه
Tajik	ҳамсоя

همسایه • (hamsâye) (plural همسایه‌ها, or همسایگان (hamsâyegân))

neighbour
― kešvar-e hamsâye-ye irân ― neighbor countries of Iran
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3256:
  گر چه در خود خانه نوری یافته ست
  آن ز همسایه‌‌ی منور تافته ست
  gar či dar xōd xāna nūr-ī yāfta-st
  ān za hamsāya-i-munavvar tāfta-st
  Although the house (your heart) has found a light within it,
  that (light) has shone forth from an illumined neighbour.

Descendants

→ Gojri: ہَمْسایو (hamsāyo)
→ Kannauji: हमसाया
→ Middle Hindi: ہمسايہ (hmsayh /⁠hamsāya⁠/)
- Hindustani:
  Hindi: हमसाया (hamsāyā)
  
  Urdu: ہَمْسایَہ (hamsāya)
→ Punjabi:
Gurmukhi script: ਹਮਸਾਇਆ (hamsāiā)

Shahmukhi script: ہَمسایَہ (hamsāyah)

References

Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “համսայեակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 28b
MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 41