میوه

See also: میوہ‎ and ميوة‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian ‎ (meyve, mive).

Noun

میوه • (meyve)

fruit
‏میوه آغاجندن اوزاق دوشمز‎ ― meyve ağacdan uzak düşmez ― the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree

Synonym: یمیش‎ (yemiş)

Descendants

Turkish: meyve
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: ми̏ва

Latin script: mȉva

References

Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “میوه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5080

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐭬𐭩𐭥𐭪‎ (mēwag, “fruit”), in Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫖𐫏𐫇‎ (myw /mēw/), Baluchi نیوَگ (nēwag, "Fruit") but Parthian 𐫖𐫏𐫃𐫅‎ (mygd /miɣẟ/) and 𐫖𐫏𐫃𐫅𐫃‎ (mygdg /miɣẟag/, “fruit”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /meːˈwa/

(Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /meːˈwa/

(Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /miːˈve/

(Tajik) IPA^(key): /meˈva/

Audio (Iran) (file)

Noun

Iranian Persian	میوه
Dari	میوه
Tajik	мева (meva)

میوه or میوه • (mive or mêwa) (plural میوه‌جات‎ (mive-jât) or میوه‌ها‎ (mive-hâ))

fruit

Derived terms

آب میوه‎ (âb-e mive)
میوه‌فروش‎ (mive-forôš)
میوه‌فروشی‎ (mive-forôši)
میوهٔ‌ جاپانی‎ (mêwa'i jâpânî) (Dari)

Descendants

→ Assamese: মেৱা (mewa)
→ Chagatai: میوه‎
- Uyghur: مېۋە‎ (mëwe)
- Uzbek: meva
→ Gulf Arabic: ميوة‎ (mēwa)
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: मेवा (mevā)

Urdu: میوہ‎ (mevā)
→ Kazakh: мәуе (mäue)
→ Old Anatolian Turkish: میوه‎ (meyve)
- Azerbaijani: meyvə
- Ottoman Turkish: میوه‎ (meyve)
  - Turkish: meyve
  - → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ми̏ва
    Latin script: mȉva
- → Crimean Tatar: meyva