فراموش

From Middle Persian [script needed] (pl(ʾ)mwš /fra/ā-mōš/, “forgotten”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mers- (“to forget, annoy, disturb, neglect”)..

Cognates include Baluchi شموشگ‎ (šamóšag, “to forget”), English mar (“to spoil, damage”), Armenian մոռանալ (moṙanal, “to forget, fail”), Sanskrit मृष्यति (mṛṣyati, “to forget”), Latvian aizmirst (“to forget”), Tocharian A märs- (“to forget”).

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فراموش • (farâmuš)

1. forgotten
   • c. 1260, Rumi, “3:3076”, in The Masnavi:

     ‏چون فراموش خودی یادت کنند، بنده گشتی آنگه آزادت کنند‎

     čun farâmuš-e xod-i yâd-at konand, bande gašt-i ân gah âzâd-at konand.

     When you are forgetful of yourself, then you are remembered; when you have become a slave, then you are set free.

   Synonym: از یاد رفته‎ (az yâd rafte)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “فراموش”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “pl(ʾ)mwš”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 32
• Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 181
• Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 306

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /fə.ɾɑː.moːʃ/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /fə.ɾɑː.moːʃ/

فراموش • (frāmoś) (Hindi spelling फ़रामोश)

1. forgotten