می

See also: مي

Mazanderani

Noun

می (mi)

  1. (anatomy) hair

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *-mi.

Particle

می or می or می or می (mi or or mu or )

  1. Used to form interrogatives.

Descendants

  • Turkish: mi, , mu,

References

  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [script needed] (HS) / [script needed] (mdy /may/, wine), from Old Persian *𐎶𐎯 (*m-du /*madu/), from Proto-Iranian *mádu, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mádʰu, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (honey, mead).

Pronunciation

Noun

Dari می
Iranian Persian
Tajik май (may)

می (mey)

  1. (literary) wine
    Synonyms: شراب (šarâb), (archaic, poetic) باده (bâde), (archaic) مل (mol), (Mughal Empire) رام رنگی (râm rangi), (archaic, poetic) صهبا (sahbâ)
  2. alcoholic beverage
Derived terms
  • میخانه (meyxâne)
  • میکده (meykade)
  • میستان (meyestân)
  • میگساری (meygosâri)
Descendants
  • Azerbaijani:
    Arabic script: مئی
    Cyrillic script: меј
    Latin script: mey
  • Gurani: مه‌ی (may)
  • Kurdish:
    Central Kurdish: مەی (mey)
    Northern Kurdish: mey
  • → Hindustani:
    Urdu: مے (mai)
  • Ottoman Turkish: می (may),
  • Pashto: می (may)
  • Uzbek: may

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (hmy /hamē/).

Alternative forms

  • (archaic) همی (hami-)

Pronunciation

Prefix

Dari می
Iranian Persian
Tajik ме- (me-)

می (mi-)

  1. A non-combining prefix used in the present and the imperfect tenses
    می (mi-) + کردم (kardam, I did) = می‌کردم (mi-kardam, I used to do; I was doing)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English May.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Dari می
Iranian Persian مه
Tajik май (may)

می (may, mê)

  1. (Dari) May
See also

Etymology 4

Alternative form of مگر (magar)

Pronunciation

  • (colloquial) IPA(key): /mej/

Preposition

می (mey)

  1. (dialectal, Shiraz, Khesht, Konartakhteh, Dashtestan) except

Conjunction

می (mey)

  1. (dialectal, Shiraz, Kazerun, Khesht, Konartakhteh, Dashtestan) but
  2. (dialectal, Shiraz, Khesht, Kazerun, Konartakhteh, Dashtestan) unless

Etymology 5

Ultimately Borrowed from Latin mīra, either via French mi or English mi.

Noun

می (mi)

  1. (music) E, Mi (the third note of the fixed-Do solfège scale)
  2. (music) Mi (the third note of the movable-Do solfège scale, i.e. the mediant)

Southwestern Fars

Noun

می (mi)

  1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv) hair

Ushojo

Adjective

می ()

  1. mine

Pronoun

می ()

  1. my
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