مینو

• منو‎ (menu)

From Middle Persian 𐫖𐫏𐫗𐫇𐫃‎ (mynwg /mēnōg/, “heaven, paradise; *emerald; *glass”), from Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬥𐬌𐬌𐬎‎ (maⁱniiu, “spirit”). Doublet of مینا‎ (minâ) from the Middle Persian’s Arabic descendant.

مینو • (minu)

1. paradise, heaven
2. (obsolete) emerald
3. (obsolete) glass

• → Urdu: مینو‎ (mīnū)

• Ağa-Oğlu, Mehmet (1946), “The Origin of the Term Mīnā and its Meanings”, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies, volume 5, issue 4, →DOI, pages 241–256
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864), “مینو”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume II, Bonn: Adolf Marcus, page 1259

Borrowed from Classical Persian مینو‎ (mēnō, “emerald; paradise”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /miː.nuː/, /miː.noː/, /meː.noː/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /miː.nuː/, /miː.noː/, /meː.noː/

مینو • (mīnū) ?

1. emerald
2. paradise, heaven

• مِینُو سَواد‎ (mīnū-savād, “heaven-like”)

• “مینو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “مینو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John Thompson (1884), “مینو”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
• “مینو”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.