محنت

See also: مخنث and مجنب

Persian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic مِحْنَة (miḥna)bor.

Persian محنت

Borrowed from Arabic مِحْنَة (miḥna).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [mih.nat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [me̞ɦ.nät̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [me̞ɦ.nät̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mɪ.nät̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mi.nät̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [meɦ.næt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [meɦ.nät̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	mihnat
Dari reading?	mehnat
Iranian reading?	mehnat
Tajik reading?	mehnat

Noun

مِحْنَت • (mehnat)

1. tribulation, toil, hardship

Descendants

• → Bengali: মেহনত (mehnot)
• → Gujarati: મહેનત (mahenat)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: मेहनत (mehnat)

  Urdu: محنت (mehnat)

• → Marathi: मेहनत (mehnat)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਮਿਹਨਤ (mihnat)

  Shahmukhi script: مِحْنَت (miḥnat)

• → Sindhi: مِحْنَتَ (mihnata)

Sindhi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian محنت (mihnat), from Arabic مِحْنَة (miḥna).

Noun

مِحْنَتَ • (mihnata) f

1. labor

Derived terms

• محنتائتو
• محنتاٹو
• محنتی

Further reading

• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “مِحْنَتَ , مَحِنَتَ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society