"مگر" meaning in Persian

See مگر in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

IPA: [ˈma.ɡaɾ] [Classical-Persian], [mǽ.ɡäɾ] [Dari, formal], [mǽ.ɡäɾ] [Dari, formal], [mǽ.ɡäɾ] [Kabuli], [mǽ.ɡäɾ] (note: Hazaragi), [mǽ.ɡʲæɹ] [Iran, formal], [mǽ.ɡʲæɹ] [Iran, formal], [mǽ.ɡʲe] [Tehrani], [mǽ.ɡäɾ] [Tajik, formal] Forms: مَگَر [canonical], magar [romanization]
Etymology: From Middle Persian 𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲 (ʾl ḥt /⁠ma agar⁠/, “perhaps; lest”), from 𐭠𐭫 (ʾl /⁠ma⁠/, “not”) + 𐭧𐭲 (ḥt /⁠agar⁠/, “if”). Etymology templates: {{inh|fa|pal|𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲|t=perhaps; lest|ts=ma agar}} Middle Persian 𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲 (ʾl ḥt /⁠ma agar⁠/, “perhaps; lest”), {{m|pal|𐭠𐭫||not|ts=ma}} 𐭠𐭫 (ʾl /⁠ma⁠/, “not”), {{m|pal|𐭧𐭲||if|ts=agar}} 𐭧𐭲 (ḥt /⁠agar⁠/, “if”) Head templates: {{head|fa|adverb|head=مَگَر|tr=magar}} مَگَر • (magar)
  1. (archaic) perhaps; perchance; (in wishes) hopefully Tags: archaic Synonyms: شاید
    Sense id: en-مگر-fa-adv-JWHQh5aD
  2. (obsolete) surely; certainly; indeed Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-مگر-fa-adv-OLq1Irpw
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: می (mey) [dialectal], مگه (mage) [colloquial]

Conjunction

IPA: [ˈma.ɡaɾ] [Classical-Persian], [mǽ.ɡäɾ] [Dari, formal], [mǽ.ɡäɾ] [Dari, formal], [mǽ.ɡäɾ] [Kabuli], [mǽ.ɡäɾ] (note: Hazaragi), [mǽ.ɡʲæɹ] [Iran, formal], [mǽ.ɡʲæɹ] [Iran, formal], [mǽ.ɡʲe] [Tehrani], [mǽ.ɡäɾ] [Tajik, formal] Forms: مَگَر [canonical], magar [romanization]
Etymology: From Middle Persian 𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲 (ʾl ḥt /⁠ma agar⁠/, “perhaps; lest”), from 𐭠𐭫 (ʾl /⁠ma⁠/, “not”) + 𐭧𐭲 (ḥt /⁠agar⁠/, “if”). Etymology templates: {{inh|fa|pal|𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲|t=perhaps; lest|ts=ma agar}} Middle Persian 𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲 (ʾl ḥt /⁠ma agar⁠/, “perhaps; lest”), {{m|pal|𐭠𐭫||not|ts=ma}} 𐭠𐭫 (ʾl /⁠ma⁠/, “not”), {{m|pal|𐭧𐭲||if|ts=agar}} 𐭧𐭲 (ḥt /⁠agar⁠/, “if”) Head templates: {{head|fa|conjunction|head=مَگَر|tr=magar}} مَگَر • (magar)
  1. Used to introduce a question to which the opposite answer is expected, or had been previously assumed; expresses surprise or disbelief.
    Sense id: en-مگر-fa-conj-fIQr9d8t Categories (other): Persian usage examples with omitted translation, Persian prepositions Disambiguation of Persian prepositions: 5 0 19 0 8 24 22 0 22
  2. unless
    Sense id: en-مگر-fa-conj-yKafaXVE Categories (other): Persian usage examples with omitted translation
  3. Expresses great curiosity or surprise.
    Sense id: en-مگر-fa-conj-llG0kORl
  4. (Dari, India) but; however Tags: Dari, India Synonyms: ولی, امّا
    Sense id: en-مگر-fa-conj-kvAoY~KY Categories (other): Dari, Indian Persian, Persian prepositions Disambiguation of Persian prepositions: 5 0 19 0 8 24 22 0 22
  5. (archaic) it happened that...; used to introduce a narrative. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-مگر-fa-conj-gZlA6EIO Categories (other): Persian prepositions Disambiguation of Persian prepositions: 5 0 19 0 8 24 22 0 22
  6. (obsolete) as if Tags: obsolete Synonyms: انگار, گوئی
    Sense id: en-مگر-fa-conj-9lle1OKY
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: می (mey) [dialectal], مگه (mage) [colloquial] Derived forms: مگر نه (magar na)

Preposition

IPA: [ˈma.ɡaɾ] [Classical-Persian], [mǽ.ɡäɾ] [Dari, formal], [mǽ.ɡäɾ] [Dari, formal], [mǽ.ɡäɾ] [Kabuli], [mǽ.ɡäɾ] (note: Hazaragi), [mǽ.ɡʲæɹ] [Iran, formal], [mǽ.ɡʲæɹ] [Iran, formal], [mǽ.ɡʲe] [Tehrani], [mǽ.ɡäɾ] [Tajik, formal] Forms: مَگَر [canonical], magar [romanization]
Etymology: From Middle Persian 𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲 (ʾl ḥt /⁠ma agar⁠/, “perhaps; lest”), from 𐭠𐭫 (ʾl /⁠ma⁠/, “not”) + 𐭧𐭲 (ḥt /⁠agar⁠/, “if”). Etymology templates: {{inh|fa|pal|𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲|t=perhaps; lest|ts=ma agar}} Middle Persian 𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲 (ʾl ḥt /⁠ma agar⁠/, “perhaps; lest”), {{m|pal|𐭠𐭫||not|ts=ma}} 𐭠𐭫 (ʾl /⁠ma⁠/, “not”), {{m|pal|𐭧𐭲||if|ts=agar}} 𐭧𐭲 (ḥt /⁠agar⁠/, “if”) Head templates: {{head|fa|preposition|head=مَگَر|tr=magar}} مَگَر • (magar)
  1. except; except for Synonyms: جز, بجز, غیر از, الّا
    Sense id: en-مگر-fa-prep-b~qDkTN0 Categories (other): Persian entries with incorrect language header, Persian prepositions Disambiguation of Persian entries with incorrect language header: 16 0 10 11 2 10 18 0 34 Disambiguation of Persian prepositions: 5 0 19 0 8 24 22 0 22
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: می (mey) [dialectal], مگه (mage) [colloquial]

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "magar na",
      "word": "مگر نه"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "pal",
        "3": "𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲",
        "t": "perhaps; lest",
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      },
      "expansion": "Middle Persian 𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲 (ʾl ḥt /⁠ma agar⁠/, “perhaps; lest”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "𐭠𐭫",
        "3": "",
        "4": "not",
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      },
      "expansion": "𐭠𐭫 (ʾl /⁠ma⁠/, “not”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pal",
        "2": "𐭧𐭲",
        "3": "",
        "4": "if",
        "ts": "agar"
      },
      "expansion": "𐭧𐭲 (ḥt /⁠agar⁠/, “if”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle Persian 𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲 (ʾl ḥt /⁠ma agar⁠/, “perhaps; lest”), from 𐭠𐭫 (ʾl /⁠ma⁠/, “not”) + 𐭧𐭲 (ḥt /⁠agar⁠/, “if”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "مَگَر",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "magar",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "conjunction",
        "head": "مَگَر",
        "tr": "magar"
      },
      "expansion": "مَگَر • (magar)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Persian",
  "lang_code": "fa",
  "pos": "conj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Persian usage examples with omitted translation",
          "parents": [
            "Usage examples with omitted translation",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "5 0 19 0 8 24 22 0 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Persian prepositions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "مگر کتاب را نخواندی؟ (literary)",
          "text": "magar ketâb râ na-xândi?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Didn't you read the book? / Oh, you didn't read the book?\n[assuming that the listener did or should have read the book; or, that the speaker had previously thought the listener had read the book]",
          "ref": "مگه کتاب و نخوندی؟ (colloquial)",
          "text": "mage ketâb o na-xundi?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "مگر غذا میخواهی؟ (literary)",
          "text": "magar ğazâ mi-xâhi?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "You don't want food, do you? / I thought you didn’t want food?",
          "ref": "مگه غذا میخوای؟ (colloquial)",
          "text": "mage ğazâ mi-xây?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "He said, “Had you not found any meat or delicacy, that you had to ‘eat’ [slander] me and my chamberlain?”\n(Classical Persian transliteration)",
          "ref": "c. 1075, Abu'l-Fażl Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Bayhaqī, تاریخ بیهقی [Tārīkh-i Bayhaqī]",
          "roman": "guft: magar gôšt na-yâfta bûdî u nuql ki ma-râ u kadxudây-am râ bixwardêd?",
          "text": "گفت: مگر گوشت نیافته بودی و نقل که مرا و کدخدایم را بخورید؟",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used to introduce a question to which the opposite answer is expected, or had been previously assumed; expresses surprise or disbelief."
      ],
      "id": "en-مگر-fa-conj-fIQr9d8t"
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Persian usage examples with omitted translation",
          "parents": [
            "Usage examples with omitted translation",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "من میروم مگر او هم برود. (literary)",
          "text": "man mi-ravam magar u ham beravam.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "I’ll go unless he goes too.",
          "ref": "من میرم مگه اونم برم. (colloquial)",
          "text": "man mi-ram mage un-am beram.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "[Not] unless you cross over my dead body!",
          "roman": "magar az ru-ye jenâze-ye man rad bešavi!",
          "text": "مگر از روی جنازه من رد بشوی!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "unless"
      ],
      "id": "en-مگر-fa-conj-yKafaXVE",
      "links": [
        [
          "unless",
          "unless"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "You have so much money!",
          "ref": "مگه خیلی پول داری! (colloquial)",
          "text": "mage xeyli pul dâri!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Expresses great curiosity or surprise."
      ],
      "id": "en-مگر-fa-conj-llG0kORl"
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Dari",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Indian Persian",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "5 0 19 0 8 24 22 0 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Persian prepositions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "but; however"
      ],
      "id": "en-مگر-fa-conj-kvAoY~KY",
      "links": [
        [
          "but",
          "but"
        ],
        [
          "however",
          "however"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Dari, India) but; however"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ولی"
        },
        {
          "word": "امّا"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "India"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "5 0 19 0 8 24 22 0 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Persian prepositions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "it happened that...; used to introduce a narrative."
      ],
      "id": "en-مگر-fa-conj-gZlA6EIO",
      "links": [
        [
          "happen",
          "happen"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) it happened that...; used to introduce a narrative."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "[It was] as if bubbles were coming from the sea to its lips.",
          "ref": "1699, Muḥammad Amīn ibn Mīrzā Muḥammad Zamān Bukhārī, محیط التواریخ [Muḥīṭ al-Tawārīkh]",
          "roman": "ze daryâ magar bar lab âmad hobâb.",
          "text": "ز دریا مگر بر لب آمد حباب.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "as if"
      ],
      "id": "en-مگر-fa-conj-9lle1OKY",
      "links": [
        [
          "as if",
          "as if"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) as if"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "انگار"
        },
        {
          "word": "گوئی"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈma.ɡaɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Persian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Kabuli"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "note": "Hazaragi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡʲæɹ]",
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡʲæɹ]",
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡʲe]",
      "tags": [
        "Tehrani"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Tajik",
        "formal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "mey",
      "tags": [
        "dialectal"
      ],
      "word": "می"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "mage",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "مگه"
    }
  ],
  "word": "مگر"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "pal",
        "3": "𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲",
        "t": "perhaps; lest",
        "ts": "ma agar"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Persian 𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲 (ʾl ḥt /⁠ma agar⁠/, “perhaps; lest”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pal",
        "2": "𐭠𐭫",
        "3": "",
        "4": "not",
        "ts": "ma"
      },
      "expansion": "𐭠𐭫 (ʾl /⁠ma⁠/, “not”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pal",
        "2": "𐭧𐭲",
        "3": "",
        "4": "if",
        "ts": "agar"
      },
      "expansion": "𐭧𐭲 (ḥt /⁠agar⁠/, “if”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle Persian 𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲 (ʾl ḥt /⁠ma agar⁠/, “perhaps; lest”), from 𐭠𐭫 (ʾl /⁠ma⁠/, “not”) + 𐭧𐭲 (ḥt /⁠agar⁠/, “if”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "مَگَر",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "magar",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "preposition",
        "head": "مَگَر",
        "tr": "magar"
      },
      "expansion": "مَگَر • (magar)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Persian",
  "lang_code": "fa",
  "pos": "prep",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "16 0 10 11 2 10 18 0 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Persian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "5 0 19 0 8 24 22 0 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Persian prepositions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Everyone was there except for Ali.",
          "roman": "hame budand magar 'ali.",
          "text": "همه بودند مگر علی.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Presently, all of them are alive except for Hasanak.\n(Classical Persian transliteration)",
          "ref": "c. 1075, Abu'l-Fażl Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Bayhaqī, تاریخ بیهقی [Tārīkh-i Bayhaqī]",
          "roman": "aknûn hama bar jây-and magar hasanak.",
          "text": "اکنون همه بر جایند مگر حسنک.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "except; except for"
      ],
      "id": "en-مگر-fa-prep-b~qDkTN0",
      "links": [
        [
          "except",
          "except"
        ],
        [
          "except for",
          "except for"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "جز"
        },
        {
          "word": "بجز"
        },
        {
          "word": "غیر از"
        },
        {
          "word": "الّا"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈma.ɡaɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Persian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Kabuli"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "note": "Hazaragi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡʲæɹ]",
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡʲæɹ]",
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡʲe]",
      "tags": [
        "Tehrani"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Tajik",
        "formal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "mey",
      "tags": [
        "dialectal"
      ],
      "word": "می"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "mage",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "مگه"
    }
  ],
  "word": "مگر"
}

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "hy",
            "2": "մագար",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Armenian: մագար (magar)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Armenian: մագար (magar)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "az",
            "2": "məgər",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Azerbaijani: məgər",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Azerbaijani: məgər"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "bn",
            "2": "মাগার",
            "3": "মগর",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Bengali: মাগার (magar), মগর (mogor)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Bengali: মাগার (magar), মগর (mogor)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "bsk",
            "2": "mágar",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Burushaski: mágar",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Burushaski: mágar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "borrowed",
            "2": "→"
          },
          "expansion": "→",
          "name": "tooltip"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "→",
          "name": "→"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Hindustani: magar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "hi",
            "2": "मगर",
            "tr": "-"
          },
          "expansion": "Hindi: मगर",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Hindi: मगर"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ur",
            "2": "مگر",
            "tr": "-"
          },
          "expansion": "Urdu: مگر",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Urdu: مگر"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "phl",
            "2": "mágar",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Phalura: mágar",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Phalura: mágar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lez",
            "2": "мегер",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Lezgi: мегер (meger)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Lezgi: мегер (meger)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ota",
            "2": "مكر",
            "bor": "1",
            "tr": "meğer"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Ottoman Turkish: مكر (meğer)\nTurkish: meğer\n→ Armenian: մէյէր (mēyēr), մէկէր (mēkēr), մա̈յա̈ր (mäyär), մա̈նգ^յա̈ր (mängʸär)",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Ottoman Turkish: مكر (meğer)\nTurkish: meğer\n→ Armenian: մէյէր (mēyēr), մէկէր (mēkēr), մա̈յա̈ր (mäyär), մա̈նգ^յա̈ր (mängʸär)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ps",
            "2": "مګر",
            "3": "منګر",
            "tr": "mangar",
            "tr2": "mangër"
          },
          "expansion": "Pashto: مګر (mangar), منګر (mangër)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Pashto: مګر (mangar), منګر (mangër)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pa",
            "2": "-",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Punjabi:",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Punjabi: magar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pa",
            "2": "ਮਗਰ",
            "tr": "-"
          },
          "expansion": "ਮਗਰ",
          "name": "l"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Gurmukhi: ਮਗਰ"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pa",
            "2": "مگر",
            "tr": "-"
          },
          "expansion": "مگر",
          "name": "l"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Shahkmukhi: مگر"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sd",
            "2": "مگر",
            "alt": "مَگَر",
            "bor": "1",
            "tr": "magar"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Sindhi: مَگَر (magar)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Sindhi: مَگَر (magar)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "yai",
            "2": "magár",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Yagnobi: magár",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Yagnobi: magár"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fa",
            "2": "مگر هم",
            "der": "1",
            "qq2": "Dari",
            "tr": "magar ham",
            "tr2": "magam"
          },
          "expansion": "⇒ Persian: مگر هم (magar ham), [script needed] (magam) (Dari)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "⇒ Persian: مگر هم (magar ham), [script needed] (magam) (Dari)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "hy",
            "2": "մագամ",
            "3": "մակամ",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Armenian: մագամ (magam), մակամ (makam)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Armenian: մագամ (magam), մակամ (makam)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "bsk",
            "2": "mágam",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Burushaski: mágam",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Burushaski: mágam"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ka",
            "2": "მაგრამ",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Georgian: მაგრამ (magram)\n→ Armenian: մագրամ (magram) — Tbilisi",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Georgian: მაგრამ (magram)\n→ Armenian: մագրամ (magram) — Tbilisi"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "isk",
            "bor": "1",
            "tr": "magam"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Ishkashimi: [script needed] (magam)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Ishkashimi: [script needed] (magam)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "khw",
            "2": "مگم",
            "bor": "1",
            "tr": "magam"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Khowar: مگم (magam)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Khowar: مگم (magam)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lez",
            "2": "мегем",
            "3": "меген",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Lezgi: мегем (megem), меген (megen)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Lezgi: мегем (megem), меген (megen)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "prc",
            "2": "magam",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Parachi: magam",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Parachi: magam"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "phl",
            "2": "magam",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Phalura: magam",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Phalura: magam"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rut",
            "2": "мегем",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Rutul: мегем",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Rutul: мегем"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sgh",
            "2": "магам",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Shughni: магам (magam)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Shughni: магам (magam)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "tly",
            "2": "məqəm",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Talysh: məqəm",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Talysh: məqəm"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "yai",
            "2": "magam",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Yagnobi: magam",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Yagnobi: magam"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "yah",
            "2": "магам",
            "bor": "1",
            "t": "verily"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Yazghulami: магам (magam, “verily”)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Yazghulami: магам (magam, “verily”)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "pal",
        "3": "𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲",
        "t": "perhaps; lest",
        "ts": "ma agar"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Persian 𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲 (ʾl ḥt /⁠ma agar⁠/, “perhaps; lest”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pal",
        "2": "𐭠𐭫",
        "3": "",
        "4": "not",
        "ts": "ma"
      },
      "expansion": "𐭠𐭫 (ʾl /⁠ma⁠/, “not”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pal",
        "2": "𐭧𐭲",
        "3": "",
        "4": "if",
        "ts": "agar"
      },
      "expansion": "𐭧𐭲 (ḥt /⁠agar⁠/, “if”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle Persian 𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲 (ʾl ḥt /⁠ma agar⁠/, “perhaps; lest”), from 𐭠𐭫 (ʾl /⁠ma⁠/, “not”) + 𐭧𐭲 (ḥt /⁠agar⁠/, “if”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "مَگَر",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "magar",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "adverb",
        "head": "مَگَر",
        "tr": "magar"
      },
      "expansion": "مَگَر • (magar)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Persian",
  "lang_code": "fa",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "From my demon-natured rival, I seek refuge in my Lord;\nBy God, may that gleaming flame give [me] a little help [against my rival].\n(romanization in Classical Persian)",
          "ref": "c. 1390, Hafez, “Ghazal 6”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Hafez]",
          "roman": "magar ân šihâb-i sâqib madadê dahad xudâ râ",
          "text": "ز رقیب دیوسیرت به خدای خود پناهم\nمگر آن شهاب ثاقب مددی دهد خدا را\nzi raqîb-i dêv-sîrat ba xudâ-yi xwad panâham",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "perhaps; perchance; (in wishes) hopefully"
      ],
      "id": "en-مگر-fa-adv-JWHQh5aD",
      "links": [
        [
          "perhaps",
          "perhaps"
        ],
        [
          "perchance",
          "perchance"
        ],
        [
          "hopefully",
          "hopefully"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) perhaps; perchance; (in wishes) hopefully"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "شاید"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "And he received the reply that, having left, it would indeed be unseemly for him to return.\n(Classical Persian transliteration)",
          "ref": "c. 1075, Abu'l-Fażl Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Bayhaqī, تاریخ بیهقی [Tārīkh-i Bayhaqī]",
          "roman": "u jawâb yâft ki čôn biraft magar zišt bâšad bâzgaštan.",
          "text": "و جواب یافت که چون برفت مگر زشت باشد بازگشتن",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "surely; certainly; indeed"
      ],
      "id": "en-مگر-fa-adv-OLq1Irpw",
      "links": [
        [
          "surely",
          "surely"
        ],
        [
          "certainly",
          "certainly"
        ],
        [
          "indeed",
          "indeed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) surely; certainly; indeed"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈma.ɡaɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Persian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Kabuli"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "note": "Hazaragi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡʲæɹ]",
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡʲæɹ]",
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡʲe]",
      "tags": [
        "Tehrani"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Tajik",
        "formal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "mey",
      "tags": [
        "dialectal"
      ],
      "word": "می"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "mage",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "مگه"
    }
  ],
  "word": "مگر"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Persian adverbs",
    "Persian conjunctions",
    "Persian entries with incorrect language header",
    "Persian lemmas",
    "Persian prepositions",
    "Persian terms derived from Middle Persian",
    "Persian terms inherited from Middle Persian",
    "Persian terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Requests for native script for Ishkashimi terms",
    "Requests for native script for Persian terms",
    "ur:Crocodilians"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "magar na",
      "word": "مگر نه"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "pal",
        "3": "𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲",
        "t": "perhaps; lest",
        "ts": "ma agar"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Persian 𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲 (ʾl ḥt /⁠ma agar⁠/, “perhaps; lest”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pal",
        "2": "𐭠𐭫",
        "3": "",
        "4": "not",
        "ts": "ma"
      },
      "expansion": "𐭠𐭫 (ʾl /⁠ma⁠/, “not”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pal",
        "2": "𐭧𐭲",
        "3": "",
        "4": "if",
        "ts": "agar"
      },
      "expansion": "𐭧𐭲 (ḥt /⁠agar⁠/, “if”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle Persian 𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲 (ʾl ḥt /⁠ma agar⁠/, “perhaps; lest”), from 𐭠𐭫 (ʾl /⁠ma⁠/, “not”) + 𐭧𐭲 (ḥt /⁠agar⁠/, “if”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "مَگَر",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "magar",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "conjunction",
        "head": "مَگَر",
        "tr": "magar"
      },
      "expansion": "مَگَر • (magar)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Persian",
  "lang_code": "fa",
  "pos": "conj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Persian terms with quotations",
        "Persian terms with usage examples",
        "Persian usage examples with omitted translation"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "مگر کتاب را نخواندی؟ (literary)",
          "text": "magar ketâb râ na-xândi?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Didn't you read the book? / Oh, you didn't read the book?\n[assuming that the listener did or should have read the book; or, that the speaker had previously thought the listener had read the book]",
          "ref": "مگه کتاب و نخوندی؟ (colloquial)",
          "text": "mage ketâb o na-xundi?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "مگر غذا میخواهی؟ (literary)",
          "text": "magar ğazâ mi-xâhi?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "You don't want food, do you? / I thought you didn’t want food?",
          "ref": "مگه غذا میخوای؟ (colloquial)",
          "text": "mage ğazâ mi-xây?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "He said, “Had you not found any meat or delicacy, that you had to ‘eat’ [slander] me and my chamberlain?”\n(Classical Persian transliteration)",
          "ref": "c. 1075, Abu'l-Fażl Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Bayhaqī, تاریخ بیهقی [Tārīkh-i Bayhaqī]",
          "roman": "guft: magar gôšt na-yâfta bûdî u nuql ki ma-râ u kadxudây-am râ bixwardêd?",
          "text": "گفت: مگر گوشت نیافته بودی و نقل که مرا و کدخدایم را بخورید؟",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used to introduce a question to which the opposite answer is expected, or had been previously assumed; expresses surprise or disbelief."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Persian terms with usage examples",
        "Persian usage examples with omitted translation"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "من میروم مگر او هم برود. (literary)",
          "text": "man mi-ravam magar u ham beravam.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "I’ll go unless he goes too.",
          "ref": "من میرم مگه اونم برم. (colloquial)",
          "text": "man mi-ram mage un-am beram.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "[Not] unless you cross over my dead body!",
          "roman": "magar az ru-ye jenâze-ye man rad bešavi!",
          "text": "مگر از روی جنازه من رد بشوی!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "unless"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "unless",
          "unless"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Persian terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "You have so much money!",
          "ref": "مگه خیلی پول داری! (colloquial)",
          "text": "mage xeyli pul dâri!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Expresses great curiosity or surprise."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Dari",
        "Indian Persian"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "but; however"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "but",
          "but"
        ],
        [
          "however",
          "however"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Dari, India) but; however"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ولی"
        },
        {
          "word": "امّا"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "India"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Persian terms with archaic senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "it happened that...; used to introduce a narrative."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "happen",
          "happen"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) it happened that...; used to introduce a narrative."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Persian terms with obsolete senses",
        "Persian terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "[It was] as if bubbles were coming from the sea to its lips.",
          "ref": "1699, Muḥammad Amīn ibn Mīrzā Muḥammad Zamān Bukhārī, محیط التواریخ [Muḥīṭ al-Tawārīkh]",
          "roman": "ze daryâ magar bar lab âmad hobâb.",
          "text": "ز دریا مگر بر لب آمد حباب.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "as if"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "as if",
          "as if"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) as if"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "انگار"
        },
        {
          "word": "گوئی"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈma.ɡaɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Persian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Kabuli"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "note": "Hazaragi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡʲæɹ]",
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡʲæɹ]",
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡʲe]",
      "tags": [
        "Tehrani"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Tajik",
        "formal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "mey",
      "tags": [
        "dialectal"
      ],
      "word": "می"
    },
    {
      "roman": "mage",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "مگه"
    }
  ],
  "word": "مگر"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Persian adverbs",
    "Persian conjunctions",
    "Persian entries with incorrect language header",
    "Persian lemmas",
    "Persian prepositions",
    "Persian terms derived from Middle Persian",
    "Persian terms inherited from Middle Persian",
    "Persian terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Requests for native script for Ishkashimi terms",
    "Requests for native script for Persian terms",
    "ur:Crocodilians"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "pal",
        "3": "𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲",
        "t": "perhaps; lest",
        "ts": "ma agar"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Persian 𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲 (ʾl ḥt /⁠ma agar⁠/, “perhaps; lest”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pal",
        "2": "𐭠𐭫",
        "3": "",
        "4": "not",
        "ts": "ma"
      },
      "expansion": "𐭠𐭫 (ʾl /⁠ma⁠/, “not”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pal",
        "2": "𐭧𐭲",
        "3": "",
        "4": "if",
        "ts": "agar"
      },
      "expansion": "𐭧𐭲 (ḥt /⁠agar⁠/, “if”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle Persian 𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲 (ʾl ḥt /⁠ma agar⁠/, “perhaps; lest”), from 𐭠𐭫 (ʾl /⁠ma⁠/, “not”) + 𐭧𐭲 (ḥt /⁠agar⁠/, “if”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "مَگَر",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "magar",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "preposition",
        "head": "مَگَر",
        "tr": "magar"
      },
      "expansion": "مَگَر • (magar)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Persian",
  "lang_code": "fa",
  "pos": "prep",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Persian terms with quotations",
        "Persian terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Everyone was there except for Ali.",
          "roman": "hame budand magar 'ali.",
          "text": "همه بودند مگر علی.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Presently, all of them are alive except for Hasanak.\n(Classical Persian transliteration)",
          "ref": "c. 1075, Abu'l-Fażl Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Bayhaqī, تاریخ بیهقی [Tārīkh-i Bayhaqī]",
          "roman": "aknûn hama bar jây-and magar hasanak.",
          "text": "اکنون همه بر جایند مگر حسنک.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "except; except for"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "except",
          "except"
        ],
        [
          "except for",
          "except for"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "جز"
        },
        {
          "word": "بجز"
        },
        {
          "word": "غیر از"
        },
        {
          "word": "الّا"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈma.ɡaɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Persian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Kabuli"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "note": "Hazaragi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡʲæɹ]",
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡʲæɹ]",
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡʲe]",
      "tags": [
        "Tehrani"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Tajik",
        "formal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "mey",
      "tags": [
        "dialectal"
      ],
      "word": "می"
    },
    {
      "roman": "mage",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "مگه"
    }
  ],
  "word": "مگر"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Persian adverbs",
    "Persian conjunctions",
    "Persian entries with incorrect language header",
    "Persian lemmas",
    "Persian prepositions",
    "Persian terms derived from Middle Persian",
    "Persian terms inherited from Middle Persian",
    "Persian terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Requests for native script for Ishkashimi terms",
    "Requests for native script for Persian terms",
    "ur:Crocodilians"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "hy",
            "2": "մագար",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Armenian: մագար (magar)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Armenian: մագար (magar)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "az",
            "2": "məgər",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Azerbaijani: məgər",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Azerbaijani: məgər"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "bn",
            "2": "মাগার",
            "3": "মগর",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Bengali: মাগার (magar), মগর (mogor)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Bengali: মাগার (magar), মগর (mogor)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "bsk",
            "2": "mágar",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Burushaski: mágar",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Burushaski: mágar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "borrowed",
            "2": "→"
          },
          "expansion": "→",
          "name": "tooltip"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "→",
          "name": "→"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Hindustani: magar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "hi",
            "2": "मगर",
            "tr": "-"
          },
          "expansion": "Hindi: मगर",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Hindi: मगर"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ur",
            "2": "مگر",
            "tr": "-"
          },
          "expansion": "Urdu: مگر",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Urdu: مگر"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "phl",
            "2": "mágar",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Phalura: mágar",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Phalura: mágar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lez",
            "2": "мегер",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Lezgi: мегер (meger)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Lezgi: мегер (meger)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ota",
            "2": "مكر",
            "bor": "1",
            "tr": "meğer"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Ottoman Turkish: مكر (meğer)\nTurkish: meğer\n→ Armenian: մէյէր (mēyēr), մէկէր (mēkēr), մա̈յա̈ր (mäyär), մա̈նգ^յա̈ր (mängʸär)",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Ottoman Turkish: مكر (meğer)\nTurkish: meğer\n→ Armenian: մէյէր (mēyēr), մէկէր (mēkēr), մա̈յա̈ր (mäyär), մա̈նգ^յա̈ր (mängʸär)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ps",
            "2": "مګر",
            "3": "منګر",
            "tr": "mangar",
            "tr2": "mangër"
          },
          "expansion": "Pashto: مګر (mangar), منګر (mangër)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Pashto: مګر (mangar), منګر (mangër)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pa",
            "2": "-",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Punjabi:",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Punjabi: magar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pa",
            "2": "ਮਗਰ",
            "tr": "-"
          },
          "expansion": "ਮਗਰ",
          "name": "l"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Gurmukhi: ਮਗਰ"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pa",
            "2": "مگر",
            "tr": "-"
          },
          "expansion": "مگر",
          "name": "l"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Shahkmukhi: مگر"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sd",
            "2": "مگر",
            "alt": "مَگَر",
            "bor": "1",
            "tr": "magar"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Sindhi: مَگَر (magar)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Sindhi: مَگَر (magar)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "yai",
            "2": "magár",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Yagnobi: magár",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Yagnobi: magár"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fa",
            "2": "مگر هم",
            "der": "1",
            "qq2": "Dari",
            "tr": "magar ham",
            "tr2": "magam"
          },
          "expansion": "⇒ Persian: مگر هم (magar ham), [script needed] (magam) (Dari)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "⇒ Persian: مگر هم (magar ham), [script needed] (magam) (Dari)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "hy",
            "2": "մագամ",
            "3": "մակամ",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Armenian: մագամ (magam), մակամ (makam)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Armenian: մագամ (magam), մակամ (makam)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "bsk",
            "2": "mágam",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Burushaski: mágam",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Burushaski: mágam"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ka",
            "2": "მაგრამ",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Georgian: მაგრამ (magram)\n→ Armenian: մագրամ (magram) — Tbilisi",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Georgian: მაგრამ (magram)\n→ Armenian: մագրամ (magram) — Tbilisi"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "isk",
            "bor": "1",
            "tr": "magam"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Ishkashimi: [script needed] (magam)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Ishkashimi: [script needed] (magam)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "khw",
            "2": "مگم",
            "bor": "1",
            "tr": "magam"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Khowar: مگم (magam)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Khowar: مگم (magam)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lez",
            "2": "мегем",
            "3": "меген",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Lezgi: мегем (megem), меген (megen)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Lezgi: мегем (megem), меген (megen)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "prc",
            "2": "magam",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Parachi: magam",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Parachi: magam"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "phl",
            "2": "magam",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Phalura: magam",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Phalura: magam"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rut",
            "2": "мегем",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Rutul: мегем",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Rutul: мегем"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sgh",
            "2": "магам",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Shughni: магам (magam)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Shughni: магам (magam)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "tly",
            "2": "məqəm",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Talysh: məqəm",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Talysh: məqəm"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "yai",
            "2": "magam",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Yagnobi: magam",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Yagnobi: magam"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "yah",
            "2": "магам",
            "bor": "1",
            "t": "verily"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Yazghulami: магам (magam, “verily”)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Yazghulami: магам (magam, “verily”)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "pal",
        "3": "𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲",
        "t": "perhaps; lest",
        "ts": "ma agar"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Persian 𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲 (ʾl ḥt /⁠ma agar⁠/, “perhaps; lest”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pal",
        "2": "𐭠𐭫",
        "3": "",
        "4": "not",
        "ts": "ma"
      },
      "expansion": "𐭠𐭫 (ʾl /⁠ma⁠/, “not”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pal",
        "2": "𐭧𐭲",
        "3": "",
        "4": "if",
        "ts": "agar"
      },
      "expansion": "𐭧𐭲 (ḥt /⁠agar⁠/, “if”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle Persian 𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲 (ʾl ḥt /⁠ma agar⁠/, “perhaps; lest”), from 𐭠𐭫 (ʾl /⁠ma⁠/, “not”) + 𐭧𐭲 (ḥt /⁠agar⁠/, “if”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "مَگَر",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "magar",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "adverb",
        "head": "مَگَر",
        "tr": "magar"
      },
      "expansion": "مَگَر • (magar)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Persian",
  "lang_code": "fa",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Persian terms with archaic senses",
        "Persian terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "From my demon-natured rival, I seek refuge in my Lord;\nBy God, may that gleaming flame give [me] a little help [against my rival].\n(romanization in Classical Persian)",
          "ref": "c. 1390, Hafez, “Ghazal 6”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Hafez]",
          "roman": "magar ân šihâb-i sâqib madadê dahad xudâ râ",
          "text": "ز رقیب دیوسیرت به خدای خود پناهم\nمگر آن شهاب ثاقب مددی دهد خدا را\nzi raqîb-i dêv-sîrat ba xudâ-yi xwad panâham",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "perhaps; perchance; (in wishes) hopefully"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "perhaps",
          "perhaps"
        ],
        [
          "perchance",
          "perchance"
        ],
        [
          "hopefully",
          "hopefully"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) perhaps; perchance; (in wishes) hopefully"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "شاید"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Persian terms with obsolete senses",
        "Persian terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "And he received the reply that, having left, it would indeed be unseemly for him to return.\n(Classical Persian transliteration)",
          "ref": "c. 1075, Abu'l-Fażl Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Bayhaqī, تاریخ بیهقی [Tārīkh-i Bayhaqī]",
          "roman": "u jawâb yâft ki čôn biraft magar zišt bâšad bâzgaštan.",
          "text": "و جواب یافت که چون برفت مگر زشت باشد بازگشتن",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "surely; certainly; indeed"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surely",
          "surely"
        ],
        [
          "certainly",
          "certainly"
        ],
        [
          "indeed",
          "indeed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) surely; certainly; indeed"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈma.ɡaɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Persian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Kabuli"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "note": "Hazaragi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡʲæɹ]",
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡʲæɹ]",
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡʲe]",
      "tags": [
        "Tehrani"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mǽ.ɡäɾ]",
      "tags": [
        "Tajik",
        "formal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "mey",
      "tags": [
        "dialectal"
      ],
      "word": "می"
    },
    {
      "roman": "mage",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "مگه"
    }
  ],
  "word": "مگر"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Persian dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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