می

See also: مي and مى

Mazanderani

Noun

می (mi)

  1. (anatomy) hair

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *-mi.

Particle

می • (mi or mı or mu or mü)

  1. Used to form interrogatives.

Descendants
  • Turkish: mi, mı, mu, mü
  • → Armenian: մը (mə)

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”).[1]

Pronunciation
 

Readings
Classical reading? may
Dari reading? may
Iranian reading? mey
Tajik reading? may

Noun
Dari می
Iranian Persian
Tajik май

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
  • → Gujarati: મય (maya)
  • → 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 (hamē-)

Pronunciation
 

Readings
Classical reading? mē
Dari reading? mē
Iranian reading? mi
Tajik reading? me

Prefix
Dari می
Iranian Persian
Tajik ме-

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
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [mäj], [meː]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [mäj], [meː]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [mäj], [meː]

Readings
Dari reading? may, mē

Proper noun
Dari می
Iranian Persian مه
Tajik май

می • (may, mē)

  1. (Dari) May
See also
Gregorian calendar months in Persian · مَاه‌هَایِ تَقْوِیمِ گْریگورِی (māh-hā-yi taqwīm-i grēgōrī)
(Dari Persian) (layout · text)
January February March April
جَنْوَرِی (janwarī) فِبْرُوَرِی (fibruwarī),
فَرْوَرِی (farwarī)		 مَارْچ (mārč) اَپْریل (aprēl)
May June July August
می (mē) جُون (jūn) جولَای (jōlāy) اَگَسْت (agast)
September October November December
سِپْتِمْبَر (siptimbar) اَکْتوبَر (aktōbar) نُوِمْبَر (nuwimbar) دِسِمْبَر (disimbar)

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)

References
  1. Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 116

Southwestern Fars

Noun

می (mi)

  1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv) hair

Ushojo

Adjective

می (mī)

  1. mine

Pronoun

می (mī)

  1. my
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