میوه

See also: میوہ and ميوة

Chagatai

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian میوه (mēwa).

Noun

میوه (mewä) (plural ميوهلار)

1. fruit

Descendants

• Uyghur: مېۋە (mëwe)
• Uzbek: meva

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• մէյվէ (meyve) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian میوَه (mēwa, “fruit”), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭩𐭥𐭪 (mēwag, “fruit”).

Noun

میوه • (meyve)

1. (botany) fruit, the seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible

   Synonyms: ثمر (semer), یمش (yemiş)

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

Derived terms

• میوه آغاجی (meyve ağacı, “fruit tree”)
• میوه‌جی (meyveci, “fruiterer”)
• میوه‌خانه (meyvehane, “hothouse”)
• میوه‌خوش (meyvehoş, “nuts”)
• میوه‌دار (meyvedar, “fructiferous”)
• میوه‌سز (meyvesiz, “fruitless”)
• میوه‌لك (meyvelik, “fruit orchard”)
• میوه‌لو (meyveli, “fructiferous”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: meyve
• → Serbo-Croatian: mȉva / ми̏ва

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “meyve”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3188
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “میوه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 472b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “میوه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1258
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fructus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 619
• 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^[4], Vienna, column 5080
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “meyve”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “میوه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2057

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐭬𐭩𐭥𐭪 (mēwag, “fruit”), and within Iranian, related to Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫖𐫏𐫇 (myw /⁠mēw⁠/), Baluchi نیوَگ (nēwag, “fruit”), and Parthian 𐫖𐫏𐫃𐫅 (mygd /⁠miɣẟ⁠/) and 𐫖𐫏𐫃𐫅𐫃 (mygdg /⁠miɣẟag⁠/, “fruit”).

The term is traditionally derived from Proto-Iranian *madvī- and further from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“honey, wine, mead”). However, Henning rejects this derivation, instead deriving the proto-form as *migda- and taking it as borrowed from Proto-Semitic *m-g-d- (“fruit”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [meː.ˈwa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [meː.wǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [meː.wǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [meː.wǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [meː.wǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [miː.vé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [me.vǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	mēwa
Dari reading?	mēwa
Iranian reading?	mive
Tajik reading?	meva

• Audio (Iran):

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Noun

Dari	میوه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	мева

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

1. fruit
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3878:

     ز آن نداری میوه‌‌ای مانند بید
     کآبرو بردی پی نان سپید

     za ān na-dārī mēwa-ē mānand-i bēd
     k-ābirū burdi pay-i nān-i sapēd

     Like the willow, thou hast no fruit,
     because thou hast lost thine honour for the sake of white bread.

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
• → Gujarati: મેવો (mevo)
• → Gulf Arabic: ميوة (mēwa)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: मेवा (mevā)

  Urdu: میوَہ (meva)

• → Kazakh: мәуе (mäue)
• → Old Anatolian Turkish: میوه (meyve)
  • Azerbaijani: meyvə
  • Ottoman Turkish: میوه (meyve), մէյվէ (meyve) — Armeno-Turkish
    • Turkish: meyve
    • → Serbo-Croatian: mȉva / ми̏ва
  • → Crimean Tatar: meyva

See also

• ثمر (samar)
• بار (bâr)