همه

See also: همة

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian hmʾk' (hamāg, “all”),[1] from Proto-Iranian *hama-ka-, from Proto-Iranian *ham- (“together”).[2] Akin to Old Armenian համակ (hamak), an Iranian borrowing. Compare Central Kurdish ھەموو (hemû) and Northern Kurdish hemû, hemî.

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? hama
Dari reading? hama
Iranian reading? hame
Tajik reading? hama
 

Readings
Classical reading? hamá-yi
Dari reading? hama-yi
Iranian reading? hame-ye
Tajik reading? hama-yi
  • Rhymes: -e (Iran), -a (other dialects)

Pronoun

همه • (hame)

  1. all
  2. everyone

Adjective

همهٔ • (hame-ye)

  1. all, every
    همهٔ ما خیلی خوشحالیم. ― hame-ye mâ xeyli xošhâlim. ― All of us are very happy.
    همهٔ این کتابا رو خونده‌ام. (more colloquial)
    hame-ye in ketâb-â-ro xundam.
    I've read all of these books.
    • (Can we date this quote?), Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, “Surah Luqman, 31:27”, in Translation of the Qur'an:
      و اگر همه درختان روی زمین قلم شود
      va agar hame-ye deraxtân-e ru-ye zamin qalam šavad
      and if all the trees on the earth were to become pens

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Salar: hemme
  • → Uzbek: hamma
  • → Uyghur: ھەممە (hemme)

See also

  • هر کس (har kas), هر کسی (har kasi)

References

  1. ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “hamāg”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 39
  2. ^ Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2007) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 3, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 351-2

South Levantine Arabic

Pronoun

همه • (humme) pl

  1. alternative spelling of هم
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