See مگر in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"roman": "magar na",
"word": "مگر نه"
}
],
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{
"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"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle Persian 𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲 (ʾl ḥt /ma agar/, “perhaps; lest”), from 𐭠𐭫 (ʾl /ma/, “not”) + 𐭧𐭲 (ḥt /agar/, “if”).",
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{
"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",
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"categories": [
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"kind": "other",
"name": "Persian usage examples with omitted translation",
"parents": [
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"Entry maintenance"
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}
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"examples": [
{
"text": "مگر کتاب را نخواندی؟ (literary)\nmagar ketâb râ na-xândi?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "مگه کتاب و نخوندی؟ (colloquial)\nmage ketâb o na-xundi?\nDidn'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]",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "مگر غذا میخواهی؟ (literary)\nmagar ğazâ mi-xâhi?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "You don't want food, do you? / I thought you didn’t want food?",
"roman": "mage ğazâ mi-xây?",
"text": "مگه غذا میخوای؟ (colloquial)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "He said, “Had you not found any meat or delicacy, that you had to ‘eat’ [slander] me and my chamberlain?”",
"ref": "c. 1075, Abu'l-Fażl Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Bayhaqī, تاریخ بیهقی [Tārīkh-i Bayhaqī]:",
"roman": "guft: magar gōšt nayāfta būdī u nuql ki marā u kadxudāyam rā bixwarēd?",
"text": "گفت: مگر گوشت نیافته بودی و نقل که مرا و کدخدایم را بخورید؟",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"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"
},
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"categories": [
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"name": "Persian usage examples with omitted translation",
"parents": [
"Usage examples with omitted translation",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "من میروم مگر او هم برود. (literary)\nman mi-ravam magar u ham beravam.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "I’ll go unless he goes too.",
"roman": "man mi-ram mage un-am beram.",
"text": "من میرم مگه اونم برم. (colloquial)",
"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!",
"roman": "mage xeyli pul dâri!",
"text": "مگه خیلی پول داری! (colloquial)",
"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": "Indo-Persian",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "1 0 9 9 2 28 18 0 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Persian entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "3 0 13 0 5 48 15 0 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Persian prepositions",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Snow makes the scenery of nature very beautiful, but [it also] makes the air very cold.",
"roman": "barf manzara-yi tabī'at rā xaylē zēbā mēsāzad, magar hawā rā xaylē sard mēsāzad.",
"text": "برف منظرۀ طبیعت را خیلی زیبا میسازد، مگر هوا را خیلی سرد میسازد. (Dari, more literary)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "He had come early to cure my pain, but\nThe helpless physician turned back from the door with eyes strewing pearls [metaphor: teardrops].",
"ref": "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 113:",
"roman": "zūd mē-āmad ki dardam rā dawā sāzad magar\nbāz gašt az dar ba-čašm-i durr fišān miskīn tabīb",
"text": "زود میآمد که دردم را دوا سازد مگر\nباز گشت از در بچشم در فشان مسکین طبیب",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"but; however"
],
"id": "en-مگر-fa-conj-kvAoY~KY",
"links": [
[
"but",
"but"
],
[
"however",
"however"
]
],
"qualifier": "Indo-Persian",
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly Dari, Indo-Persian) but; however"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "ولی"
},
{
"word": "امّا"
}
],
"tags": [
"Dari"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "22 1 0 2 1 1 8 11 0 24 1 0 1 2 21 0 0 0 1 0 2 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 0 9 9 2 28 18 0 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Persian entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"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": "As long as courteous breezes from you have wafted upon it,\nThe tulip has become alive, as if from Jesus's breath.",
"ref": "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 87:",
"roman": "tā wazīdast bar ō az tō nasīm-i adabī\nzinda gaštast magar az dam-i īsā lāla",
"text": "تا وزیدست برو از تو نسیم ادبی\nزنده گشتست مگر از دم عیسی لاله",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"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": "zi daryā magar bar lab āmad hubāb.",
"text": "ز دریا مگر بر لب آمد حباب.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"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"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ar"
}
],
"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"
}
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{
"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"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle Persian 𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲 (ʾl ḥt /ma agar/, “perhaps; lest”), from 𐭠𐭫 (ʾl /ma/, “not”) + 𐭧𐭲 (ḥt /agar/, “if”).",
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{
"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": "24 1 0 3 1 1 6 9 0 18 2 0 1 3 24 0 0 0 1 0 3 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 5 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "22 1 0 2 1 1 8 11 0 24 1 0 1 2 21 0 0 0 1 0 2 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 0 9 9 2 28 18 0 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Persian entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"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.",
"ref": "c. 1075, Abu'l-Fażl Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Bayhaqī, تاریخ بیهقی [Tārīkh-i Bayhaqī]:",
"roman": "aknūn hama bar jāy-and magar hasanak.",
"text": "اکنون همه بر جایند مگر حسنک.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "You said, \"[keep your love] hidden except to me, otherwise I shall kill you!\"\nWhat have I done, except for being killed by it [the love]?\"",
"ref": "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 204:",
"roman": "guftī nihān magar ba-man ar nē kušam tu-rā\nman ham juz īn ki kušta-yi ānam či karda'am",
"text": "گفتی نهان مگر بمن ار نی کشم ترا\nمن هم جز این که کشتهٔ آنم چه کردهام",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"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"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ar"
}
],
"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": "inc-hnd",
"2": "-",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Hindustani:",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Hindustani:"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "hi",
"2": "मगर"
},
"expansion": "Hindi: मगर (magar)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Hindi: मगर (magar)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ur",
"2": "مگر",
"tr": "magar"
},
"expansion": "Urdu: مگر (magar)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Urdu: مگر (magar)"
},
{
"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:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pa",
"2": "ਮਗਰ",
"sclb": "1"
},
"expansion": "Gurmukhi script: ਮਗਰ (magar)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Gurmukhi script: ਮਗਰ (magar)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pa",
"2": "مگر",
"sclb": "1",
"tr": "magar"
},
"expansion": "Shahmukhi script: مگر (magar)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Shahmukhi script: مگر (magar)"
},
{
"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"
},
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{
"args": {
"1": "isk",
"bor": "1",
"tr": "magam"
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"expansion": "→ Ishkashimi: [script needed] (magam)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "khw",
"2": "مگم",
"bor": "1",
"tr": "magam"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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{
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{
"args": {
"1": "lez",
"2": "мегем",
"3": "меген",
"bor": "1"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Lezgi: мегем (megem), меген (megen)"
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{
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{
"args": {
"1": "prc",
"2": "magam",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Parachi: magam",
"name": "desc"
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{
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"2": "magam",
"bor": "1"
},
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"name": "desc"
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{
"depth": 2,
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{
"args": {
"1": "rut",
"2": "мегем",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Rutul: мегем (megem)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
{
"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,
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{
"args": {
"1": "yai",
"2": "magam",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Yagnobi: magam",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
{
"depth": 2,
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{
"args": {
"1": "yah",
"2": "магам",
"bor": "1",
"t": "verily"
},
"expansion": "→ Yazghulami: магам (magam, “verily”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Yazghulami: магам (magam, “verily”)"
}
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"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].",
"ref": "c. 1390, Hafez, “Ghazal 6”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Hafez]:",
"roman": "zi raqīb-i dēw-sīrat ba xudā-yi xwad panāham\nmagar ān šihāb-i sāqib madadē dahad xudā rā",
"text": "ز رقیب دیوسیرت به خدای خود پناهم\nمگر آن شهاب ثاقب مددی دهد خدا را",
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"roman": "u jawāb yāft ki čūn biraft magar zišt bāšad bāzgaštan.",
"text": "و جواب یافت که چون برفت مگر زشت باشد بازگشتن",
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}
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"derived": [
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"word": "مگر نه"
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"2": "pal",
"3": "𐭠𐭫 𐭧𐭲",
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"text": "مگر کتاب را نخواندی؟ (literary)\nmagar ketâb râ na-xândi?",
"type": "example"
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"text": "مگه کتاب و نخوندی؟ (colloquial)\nmage ketâb o na-xundi?\nDidn'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]",
"type": "example"
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{
"text": "مگر غذا میخواهی؟ (literary)\nmagar ğazâ mi-xâhi?",
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{
"english": "You don't want food, do you? / I thought you didn’t want food?",
"roman": "mage ğazâ mi-xây?",
"text": "مگه غذا میخوای؟ (colloquial)",
"type": "example"
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{
"english": "He said, “Had you not found any meat or delicacy, that you had to ‘eat’ [slander] me and my chamberlain?”",
"ref": "c. 1075, Abu'l-Fażl Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Bayhaqī, تاریخ بیهقی [Tārīkh-i Bayhaqī]:",
"roman": "guft: magar gōšt nayāfta būdī u nuql ki marā u kadxudāyam rā bixwarēd?",
"text": "گفت: مگر گوشت نیافته بودی و نقل که مرا و کدخدایم را بخورید؟",
"type": "quote"
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],
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]
},
{
"categories": [
"Persian terms with usage examples",
"Persian usage examples with omitted translation"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "من میروم مگر او هم برود. (literary)\nman mi-ravam magar u ham beravam.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "I’ll go unless he goes too.",
"roman": "man mi-ram mage un-am beram.",
"text": "من میرم مگه اونم برم. (colloquial)",
"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": [
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],
"links": [
[
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{
"english": "You have so much money!",
"roman": "mage xeyli pul dâri!",
"text": "مگه خیلی پول داری! (colloquial)",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Expresses great curiosity or surprise."
]
},
{
"categories": [
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"Indo-Persian",
"Persian terms with quotations",
"Persian terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Snow makes the scenery of nature very beautiful, but [it also] makes the air very cold.",
"roman": "barf manzara-yi tabī'at rā xaylē zēbā mēsāzad, magar hawā rā xaylē sard mēsāzad.",
"text": "برف منظرۀ طبیعت را خیلی زیبا میسازد، مگر هوا را خیلی سرد میسازد. (Dari, more literary)",
"type": "example"
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{
"english": "He had come early to cure my pain, but\nThe helpless physician turned back from the door with eyes strewing pearls [metaphor: teardrops].",
"ref": "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 113:",
"roman": "zūd mē-āmad ki dardam rā dawā sāzad magar\nbāz gašt az dar ba-čašm-i durr fišān miskīn tabīb",
"text": "زود میآمد که دردم را دوا سازد مگر\nباز گشت از در بچشم در فشان مسکین طبیب",
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[
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"however"
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"word": "ولی"
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{
"word": "امّا"
}
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"tags": [
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]
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"examples": [
{
"english": "As long as courteous breezes from you have wafted upon it,\nThe tulip has become alive, as if from Jesus's breath.",
"ref": "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 87:",
"roman": "tā wazīdast bar ō az tō nasīm-i adabī\nzinda gaštast magar az dam-i īsā lāla",
"text": "تا وزیدست برو از تو نسیم ادبی\nزنده گشتست مگر از دم عیسی لاله",
"type": "quote"
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{
"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": "zi daryā magar bar lab āmad hubāb.",
"text": "ز دریا مگر بر لب آمد حباب.",
"type": "quote"
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"english": "Everyone was there except for Ali.",
"roman": "hame budand magar'ali.",
"text": "همه بودند مگر علی.",
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"english": "Presently, all of them are alive except for Hasanak.",
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"roman": "aknūn hama bar jāy-and magar hasanak.",
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"roman": "guftī nihān magar ba-man ar nē kušam tu-rā\nman ham juz īn ki kušta-yi ānam či karda'am",
"text": "گفتی نهان مگر بمن ار نی کشم ترا\nمن هم جز این که کشتهٔ آنم چه کردهام",
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"categories": [
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"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",
"Rhymes:Persian/ar",
"Rhymes:Persian/ar/2 syllables",
"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": "inc-hnd",
"2": "-",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Hindustani:",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Hindustani:"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "hi",
"2": "मगर"
},
"expansion": "Hindi: मगर (magar)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Hindi: मगर (magar)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ur",
"2": "مگر",
"tr": "magar"
},
"expansion": "Urdu: مگر (magar)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Urdu: مگر (magar)"
},
{
"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:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pa",
"2": "ਮਗਰ",
"sclb": "1"
},
"expansion": "Gurmukhi script: ਮਗਰ (magar)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Gurmukhi script: ਮਗਰ (magar)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pa",
"2": "مگر",
"sclb": "1",
"tr": "magar"
},
"expansion": "Shahmukhi script: مگر (magar)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Shahmukhi script: مگر (magar)"
},
{
"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 (megem)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Rutul: мегем (megem)"
},
{
"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"
}
],
"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].",
"ref": "c. 1390, Hafez, “Ghazal 6”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Hafez]:",
"roman": "zi raqīb-i dēw-sīrat ba xudā-yi xwad panāham\nmagar ān šihāb-i sāqib madadē dahad xudā rā",
"text": "ز رقیب دیوسیرت به خدای خود پناهم\nمگر آن شهاب ثاقب مددی دهد خدا را",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"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.",
"ref": "c. 1075, Abu'l-Fażl Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Bayhaqī, تاریخ بیهقی [Tārīkh-i Bayhaqī]:",
"roman": "u jawāb yāft ki čūn biraft magar zišt bāšad bāzgaštan.",
"text": "و جواب یافت که چون برفت مگر زشت باشد بازگشتن",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"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"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ar"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"roman": "mey",
"tags": [
"dialectal"
],
"word": "می"
},
{
"roman": "mage",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "مگه"
}
],
"word": "مگر"
}
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