मींयां

Old Hindi

Alternative forms
  • मियां (miyā̃)

Etymology
PIE word
*médʰyos

Borrowed from Classical Persian میان (miyān, “lord, sir (in Indo-Persian)”). Compare Old Punjabi ਮੀਆ (mīā /⁠mīāṁ⁠/).

Noun

मींयां (mī̃yā̃)

  1. a respectful term of address to an elderly Muslim man

Descendants
  • Hindustani: miyā̃
    Hindi: मियाँ
    Urdu: مِیاں (miyā̃)

Further reading
  • Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 558
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