یمن

See also: يمن

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic اَلْيَمَن (al-yaman).

Proper noun

یمن • (yemen)

  1. Yemen (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)

Derived terms

  • یمن آلاجه‌سی (Yemen alacası, “kind of cloth from Yemen”)
  • یمن قهوه‌سی (Yemen kahvesi, “Moka coffee”)
  • یمنی (yemeni, “Yemeni”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: Yemen

Further reading

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یمن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1359
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یمن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎[2], Vienna, column 5608
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یمن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2210
  • Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Yemen”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎[4], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 808

Persian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic اَلْيَمَن (al-yaman).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? yaman
Dari reading? yaman
Iranian reading? yaman
Tajik reading? yaman

Proper noun

Dari یمن
Iranian Persian
Tajik Яман

یمن • (yaman)

  1. Yemen (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic يُمْن (yumn).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? yumn
Dari reading? yumn
Iranian reading? yomn
Tajik reading? yumn

Noun

یمن • (yomn)

  1. omen
  2. blessing
    • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 329”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎[5]:
      شعرم به یمن مدح تو صد ملک دل گشاد
      گویی که تیغ توست زبان سخنورم
      ši'ram ba yumn-i madh-i tu sad mulk-i dil gušād
      gūyī ki tēġ-i tu-st zabān-i suxanwaram
      My poetry has conquered the kingdoms of a hundred hearts by the blessing of praising you,
      As if my eloquent tongue should be your blade.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

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

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian یمن (yaman), from Arabic اَلْيَمَن (al-yaman).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /jə.mən/
  • Audio (Pakistan):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ən
  • Hyphenation: یَ‧مَن

Proper noun

یَمَن • (yaman) m (Hindi spelling यमन)

  1. Yemen (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)

See also

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