مهرجان

Arabic

Etymology

From Classical Persian مهرگان (mihragān), following the Abbasid takeover.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mih.ra.d͡ʒaːn/, /mah.ra.d͡ʒaːn/

Noun

مِهْرَجَان or مَهْرَجَان • (mihrajān or mahrajān) m (plural مِهْرَجَانَات (mihrajānāt) or مَهْرَجَانَات (mahrajānāt))

  1. festival, fair

Declension

References

  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “مهرجان”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1090
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 56
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 33
  • Ullmann, Manfred (1992) Das Motiv des Spiegels in der arabischen Literatur des Mittelalters (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen: Philologisch-historische Klasse; 198) (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pages 143–144

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic مَهْرَجَان (mahrajān).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mah.ra.ʒaːn/, [mah.raˈʒæːn]
  • (file)

Noun

مهرجان • (mahrajān) m (plural مهرجانات (mahrajānāt))

  1. festival, fair
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