Readings Classical reading? yā Dari reading? yā Iranian reading? yâ Tajik reading? yo
Inherited fromMiddle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] ( ʾywp /ayāb/ ) , Manichaean script:𐫀𐫏𐫀𐫁 ( ʾyʾb /ayāb/ ) . Cognate withParthian 𐫀𐫃𐫀𐫖 ( ʾgʾm /āgām/ ) . Further etymology unclear; not found in Old Persian.
Dari یا Iranian Persian Tajik ё
یا • (yâ )
or امروز یا فردا میروید؟ ( more literary ) emruzyâ fardâ mi-ravid? امرو یا فردا میرین؟ ( more colloquial ) emruyâ fardâ mi-rin? Are you going todayor tomorrow? c. 1390 ,Hafez , “Ghazal 12”, inدیوان حافظ [The Divān of Hafez ][1] :عزم دیدار تو دارد جانِ بر لب آمده باز گردد یا برآید؟ چیست فرمان شما؟ azm-i dîdâr-i tu dârad jân-i bar lab âmada bâz gardadyâ bar-âyad? čî-st farmân-i šumâ? My soul, resolved to see you, has come to the edge; Shall it go back,or come forth? Which do you command? (romanization in Classical Persian) either یا امروز یا فردا yâ emruzyâ fardâeither todayor tomorrow→ Arabic:Egyptian Arabic:يا ( ya ) Gulf Arabic:يا ... يا ( yā ... yā ) South Levantine Arabic:يا ( ya ) → Azerbaijani:ya → Bashkir:йә ( yə ) → Hindustani:Hindi:या ( yā ) Urdu:یا ( yā ) → Kannada:ಯಾ ( yā ) → Ottoman Turkish:یا ( ya ) → Turkmen:ýa Borrowed fromArabic يَا ( yā ) .
Dari یا Iranian Persian Tajik ё
یا • (yâ )
( chiefly in religious set phrases ) O Synonym: ای ( ey ) یا علی ―yâ 'ali ―O Ali (common religious phrase amongShia Muslims ) The templateTemplate:sdh-pronoun does not use the parameter(s):g=m Please seeModule:checkparams for help with this warning. یا (ya )
alternative form ofئەۊ ( eẅ ) Northern Kurdish yan Central Kurdish یان ( yan )
ComparePersian يا .
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or neither FromClassical Persian یا ( yā ) .
یا • (yā ) (Hindi spelling या )
or FromArabic يَا ( yā ) .
یا • (yā )
oh !