نخوت

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَخْوَة (naḵwa).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [nax.ˈwat]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [näx.wǽt̪]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [näx.wǽt̪]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [näx.wǽt̪]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [næx.vǽt̪]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [näχ.vǽt̪]

Readings
Classical reading^?	naxwat
Dari reading^?	naxwat
Iranian reading^?	naxvat
Tajik reading^?	naxvat

Noun

نخوت • (naxvat)

haughtiness, dignity, pride, vanity
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 23—24:
  شاد باش ای عشق خوش سودای ما
  ای طبیب جمله علتهای ما
  ای دوای نخوت و ناموس ما
  ای تو افلاطون و جالینوس ما
  šād bāš ay išq-i xwaš sawdā-yi mā
  ay tabīb-i jumla illat-hā-yi mā
  ay dawā-yi naxwat u nāmūs-i mā
  ay tu aflātūn u jālīnūs-i mā
  Hail, our sweet-thoughted Love —thou that art the physician of all our ills,
  The remedy of our pride and vainglory, our Plato and our Galen!
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

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