majhul

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A class of vowel used in various Arabic script languages, including Persian, Kurdish, and Urdu, among others:; A vowel phoneme that does not have a phonemic equivalent in Classical Arabic.
    — The New Persian [of Iran], as is well known, has confused in many words the majhūl (' unknown [to the Arabs]' =Persian sounds) vowels ē, ō with the ma'rūf ('known [to the Arabs]'=Arabic sounds) vowels ī, ū. The Judaeo-Persian and the Baluci, like the Indian pronunciation of New Persian, maintain clearly the original distinction between the majhūl and the ma'rūf vowels.
  2. A class of vowel used in various Arabic script languages, including Persian, Kurdish, and Urdu, among others:; A semivowel, or other vocalic character, with a reading that is phonemically distinct from its normal pronunciation in Classical Arabic. broadly
    — [...] there are two kinds of Yā in Persian, namely, the Ma'rūf and the Majhūl. The Ma'rūf or known Yā is the Yā which occurs in such words as رقیب, تیر, شیر (milk), دید, پیل etc., while the Majhūl or Unknown Yā occurs in words such as خویش, تیز, شیر (lion), سپید etc.
  3. A conditional allophone of a vowel phoneme that appears in proximity to certain guttural consonants. broadly

词形变化

majhuls plural majhūl alternative

词源

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَجْهُول (majhūl), from Arabic مَجْهُول (majhūl, “unknown”).
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