واقعا

Arabic

Etymology

Adverbial accusative of وَاقِع (wāqiʕ, “reality”), from the root و ق ع (w q ʕ).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /waː.qi.ʕan/

Adverb

وَاقِعًا • (wāqiʕan)

really

Descendants

→ Azerbaijani: vaqiən
→ Persian: واقِعاً (vâqe'an)
→ Ottoman Turkish: واقعاً (vakıa)
- Turkish: vakıa
→ Uzbek: voqean

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic واقِعاً (wāqiʕan) By surface analysis, (vâqe') +‎ (-an).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /waː.qi.ˈʔan/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [wɑː.qe̞.ʔǽn]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [wɑː.qi.jǽn]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [wɔː.qi.jǽn]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [vɒː.ʁe.ʔǽn]
- (Tehrani) IPA^(key): [vɒː.ʁǽn]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [vɔ.qi.ʔǽn]

Readings
Classical reading^?	wāqi'an
Dari reading^?	wāqe'an
Iranian reading^?	vâġe'an
Tajik reading^?	voqi'an

Adverb


Iranian Persian	واقِعاً
Dari	واقِعاً
Tajik	воқеъан

واقِعاً • (wāqi'an / vâġe'an) (Tajik spelling воқеъан)

really; actually
Synonym: از راستی (az râsti)

(colloquial Iranian)
vâqan injuri-ye?
Is it really like this?

(colloquial Iranian)
donyâ vâqan unqadr jeddy nisteš.
The world really isn't that serious.
- c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 261:
  هیچ با عاشق مسکین نکنی غیر از جور
  واقعا خوب هنرهاست که آموخته‌ای
  hēč bā āšiq-i miskīn na-kunī ġayr az jawr
  wāqi'an xūb hunarhā-st ki āmōxta'ī
  You do nothing except torment the wretched lover;
  Really, what wonderful skills you have learned!
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

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