پهنا

Persian

(pahn, “wide, broad”) +‎ (nâ, suffix changing a few adjectives to abstract nouns)

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäɦ.nɑː]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰɑː.nɑː]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰɔː.nɔː]


Iranian Persian	پهنا
Dari	پهنا
Tajik	паҳно

پهنا • (pahnâ)

width, breadth, expanse
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3093:
  تا که سازد جان پاک از سر قدم / سوی عرصه‌‌ی دور پهنای عدم
  tâ ki sâzad jân-i-pâk az sar qadam / sûy 'arsa-i-dûr pahnâ-i-'adam
  That the pure soul may make of its head a foot (fly headlong) towards the far stretching expanse of non-existence

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