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"will (indicating future action)"
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"form": "بد",
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"alternative"
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"form": "بذ",
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"english": "Tell me.",
"roman": "be man begu.",
"text": "به من بگو.",
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20
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16
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11
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[
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18,
20
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13,
15
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"roman": "râh-hâ-ye residan be xošhâli",
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38
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28
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19
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"english": "The Foreign Minister of Turkey went to Tehran.",
"roman": "vazir-e xâreje-ye torkiye be tehrân raft.",
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[
"towards",
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[
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"source": "w+disamb"
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{
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2
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"english": "quickly",
"roman": "be sor'at",
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18
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[
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0,
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"english": "in Persian",
"roman": "be fârsi",
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"english": "in the name of God",
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[
"in",
"in"
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"formal"
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{
"ipa": "[bä]",
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"Dari",
"formal"
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"ipa": "[bä]",
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"Iran",
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],
"text": "→ Georgian: ბია (bia)\n→ Abkhaz: а-биа (a-bja)\n→ Laz: ბიჲა (biya) — Chkhala\n→ Mingrelian: ბია (bia)\n→ Ossetian: биа (bia) — Digor"
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"bor": "1"
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},
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"depth": 1,
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"2": "behi",
"bor": "1"
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],
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}
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"Dari",
"formal"
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"word": "بهروز"
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"word": "بهنام"
},
{
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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"text": "بَاغْبَان هَم دَانَد آن رَا دَر خَزَان / لیک دِیدِ یَک بِهْ اَز دِیدِ جَهَان",
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],
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"plural"
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}
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"Malay terms in Arabic script"
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],
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"Jawi",
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}
],
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{
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}
],
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{
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[
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"will"
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}
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"ipa": "/ba/"
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{
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"1": "fa",
"2": "peo",
"3": "𐎱𐎫𐎡𐎹",
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"name": "der"
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{
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"2": "ira-pro",
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}
],
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"form": "be",
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},
{
"form": "بد",
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"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
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},
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],
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2
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9
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0,
2
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"english": "Tell me.",
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},
{
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18,
20
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],
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14,
16
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9,
11
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],
"english": "This is my advice to you.",
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],
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[
"to",
"to"
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[
"for",
"for"
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]
},
{
"categories": [
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18,
20
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],
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13,
15
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],
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"roman": "râh-hâ-ye residan be xošhâli",
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},
{
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36,
38
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],
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26,
28
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],
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
17,
19
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],
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"roman": "vazir-e xâreje-ye torkiye be tehrân raft.",
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}
],
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],
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[
"to",
"to"
],
[
"towards",
"towards"
],
[
"into",
"into"
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]
},
{
"categories": [
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{
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5,
7
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],
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0,
2
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],
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[
0,
2
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],
"english": "quickly",
"roman": "be sor'at",
"text": "به سرعت",
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},
{
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[
0,
2
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16,
18
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],
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[
0,
2
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],
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0,
2
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],
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],
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],
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[
"by",
"by"
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[
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"-ly"
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]
},
{
"categories": [
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{
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0,
2
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[
0,
2
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],
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[
0,
2
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],
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],
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[
"in",
"in"
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},
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0,
2
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0,
2
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],
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[
0,
2
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],
"english": "in the name of God",
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],
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[
"by",
"by"
],
[
"in",
"in"
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]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "[ba]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Persian"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[bä]",
"tags": [
"Dari",
"formal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[bä]",
"tags": [
"Dari",
"formal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[bä]",
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"Kabuli"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[bä]",
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{
"ipa": "[be]",
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"Iran",
"formal"
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},
{
"ipa": "[bä]",
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"formal"
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"1": "av",
"2": "бигь",
"bor": "1"
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"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Avar: бигь (bih)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "ka",
"2": "ბია",
"bor": "1"
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"expansion": "→ Georgian: ბია (bia)\n→ Abkhaz: а-биа (a-bja)\n→ Laz: ბიჲა (biya) — Chkhala\n→ Mingrelian: ბია (bia)\n→ Ossetian: биа (bia) — Digor",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "→ Georgian: ბია (bia)\n→ Abkhaz: а-биа (a-bja)\n→ Laz: ბიჲა (biya) — Chkhala\n→ Mingrelian: ბია (bia)\n→ Ossetian: биа (bia) — Digor"
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{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "lbe",
"2": "бигь",
"bor": "1"
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"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Lak: бигь (bih)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "uz",
"2": "behi",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Uzbek: behi",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Uzbek: behi"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ug",
"2": "بېھى",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Uyghur: بېھى (bëhi)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Uyghur: بېھى (bëhi)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "tk",
"2": "behi",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Turkmen: behi",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "fa",
"2": "quince"
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"expansion": "",
"name": "etymid"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fa",
"2": "pal",
"gloss": "quince",
"tr": "byh",
"ts": "bēh"
},
"expansion": "Middle Persian [script needed] (byh /bēh/, “quince”)",
"name": "inherited"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle Persian [script needed] (byh /bēh/, “quince”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "beh",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "بهی",
"roman": "behi",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "بی",
"roman": "beyy",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
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"2": "noun",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"6": "",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"f1tr": "",
"f2tr": "",
"f3tr": "",
"head": "",
"head2": "",
"head3": "",
"tr": "beh",
"tr2": "",
"tr3": ""
},
"expansion": "به • (beh)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"tr": "beh"
},
"expansion": "به • (beh)",
"name": "fa-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Persian",
"lang_code": "fa",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"quince"
],
"links": [
[
"quince",
"quince"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[bih]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Persian"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[be̞ʱ]",
"tags": [
"Dari",
"formal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[be̞ʱ]",
"tags": [
"Dari",
"formal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[biː]",
"tags": [
"Kabuli"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[bi]",
"note": "Hazaragi"
},
{
"ipa": "[beʱ]",
"tags": [
"Iran",
"formal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[beʱ]",
"tags": [
"Tajik",
"formal"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"fa:به"
],
"word": "به"
}
{
"categories": [
"Middle Persian term requests",
"Old Persian terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Persian adjectives",
"Persian entries with incorrect language header",
"Persian lemmas",
"Persian terms derived from Middle Persian",
"Persian terms derived from Old Persian",
"Persian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Persian terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian",
"Persian terms derived from Proto-Iranian",
"Persian terms inherited from Middle Persian",
"Persian terms inherited from Old Persian",
"Persian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
"Persian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian",
"Persian terms inherited from Proto-Iranian",
"Persian terms with IPA pronunciation",
"fa:Fruits"
],
"derived": [
{
"roman": "behtar",
"word": "بهتر"
},
{
"roman": "behdin",
"word": "بهدین"
},
{
"roman": "behruz",
"word": "بهروز"
},
{
"roman": "behšahr",
"word": "بهشهر"
},
{
"roman": "behnâm",
"word": "بهنام"
},
{
"roman": "behine",
"word": "بهینه"
},
{
"roman": "beh-âfarid",
"word": "بهآفرید"
}
],
"etymology_number": 3,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fa",
"2": "pal"
},
"expansion": "Middle Persian [Term?]",
"name": "inherited"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fa",
"2": "peo",
"3": "𐎺𐎢",
"gloss": "good",
"tr": "vahu"
},
"expansion": "Old Persian 𐎺𐎢 (vahu, “good”)",
"name": "inherited"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fa",
"2": "ira-pro",
"3": "*Hwáhuš"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Iranian *Hwáhuš",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fa",
"2": "iir-pro",
"3": "*Hwásuš"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hwásuš",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fa",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*h₁wésus",
"4": "",
"5": "good"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₁wésus (“good”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "xcl",
"2": "վեհ",
"3": "",
"4": "sublime"
},
"expansion": "Old Armenian վեհ (veh, “sublime”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle Persian [Term?] ŠPYL / wyh (weh, “better, good”), from Old Persian 𐎺𐎢 (vahu, “good”), from Proto-Iranian *Hwáhuš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hwásuš, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wésus (“good”). Related to Old Armenian վեհ (veh, “sublime”), an Iranian borrowing.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "beh",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
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"1": "fa",
"2": "adjective",
"tr": "beh"
},
"expansion": "به • (beh)",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Persian",
"lang_code": "fa",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Persian terms with archaic senses"
],
"glosses": [
"good, excellent"
],
"links": [
[
"good",
"good"
],
[
"excellent",
"excellent"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) good, excellent"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "خوب"
}
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Persian terms with archaic senses",
"Persian terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_english_offsets": [
[
76,
82
]
],
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
55,
59
]
],
"english": "The Gardener knows that (difference) even in autumn, but the One's sight is better than the world's sight.",
"ref": "c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 2925:",
"roman": "bāğbān ham dānad ān rā dar xazān / lēk dīd-i yak bih az dīd-i jahān",
"text": "بَاغْبَان هَم دَانَد آن رَا دَر خَزَان / لیک دِیدِ یَک بِهْ اَز دِیدِ جَهَان",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"better"
],
"links": [
[
"better",
"better"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) better"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "بهتر"
}
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Persian terms with archaic senses"
],
"glosses": [
"elegant"
],
"links": [
[
"elegant",
"elegant"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) elegant"
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Persian terms with archaic senses"
],
"glosses": [
"safe, sound"
],
"links": [
[
"safe",
"safe"
],
[
"sound",
"sound"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) safe, sound"
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[bih]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Persian"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[be̞ʱ]",
"tags": [
"Dari",
"formal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[be̞ʱ]",
"tags": [
"Dari",
"formal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[be̞]",
"tags": [
"Kabuli"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[bi]",
"note": "Hazaragi"
},
{
"ipa": "[beʱ]",
"tags": [
"Iran",
"formal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[beʱ]",
"tags": [
"Tajik",
"formal"
]
}
],
"word": "به"
}
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