همه

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Persian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (pronoun) IPA(key): /hæˈme/
  • (adjective) IPA(key): /hæˈmeje/
  • Rhymes: -e

Pronoun[edit]

همه • (hame)

  1. all
  2. everyone

Adjective[edit]

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[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  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[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

همه • (humme) pl

  1. Alternative spelling of هم
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