# می
## Mazanderani
### Noun

می (mi)
* (anatomy) hair

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *-mi.

### Particle

می • (mi or mı or mu or mü)
* Used to form interrogatives.

#### Descendants

* Turkish: mi, mı, mu, mü
* → Armenian: մը (mə)

### References

* Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

## Persian
### Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [script needed] (HS) / [script needed] (mdy /⁠may⁠/, “wine”), from Old Persian *𐎶𐎯 (*m-du /⁠*madu⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *mádu, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mádʰu, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“honey, mead”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [maj]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mäj]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mäj]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [mäj]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [mäj]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [mej]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [mäj]

#### Noun

| Dari | می |
| Iranian Persian | می |
| Tajik | май |
می • (mey)
* (literary) wine
    Synonyms: شراب (šarâb), (archaic, poetic) باده (bâde), (archaic) مل (mol), (Mughal Empire) رام رنگی (râm rangi), (archaic, poetic) صهبا (sahbâ)
* alcoholic beverage

##### Derived terms

* میخانه (meyxâne)
* می‌زده (meyzade, “habitual drinker”)
* میکده (meykade)
* میستان (meyestân)
* میگساری (meygosâri)

##### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani:
    Arabic script: مئی
    Cyrillic script: меј
    Latin script: mey
* → Gujarati: મય (maya)
* → Gurani: مه‌ی (may)
* → Kurdish:
    Central Kurdish: مەی (mey)
    Northern Kurdish: mey
* → Hindustani:
    Urdu: مے (mai)
* → Ottoman Turkish: می (may)
** Turkish: mey
* → Pashto: می (may)
* → Uzbek: may

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English May.

#### Pronunciation

* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mäj], [meː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mäj], [meː]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [mäj], [meː]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [mäj], [meː]

#### Proper noun

| Dari | می |
| Iranian Persian | مه |
| Tajik | май |
می • (may, mē)
* (Dari) May

##### See also

Gregorian calendar months in Persian · مَاه‌هَایِ تَقْوِیمِ گْریگورِی (māh-hā-yi taqwīm-i grēgōrī) (Dari Persian) (layout · text) :
| January | February | March | April |
| جَنْوَرِی (janwarī) | فِبْرُوَرِی (fibruwarī), فَرْوَرِی (farwarī) | مَارْچ (mārč) | اَپْریل (aprēl) |
| May | June | July | August |
| می (mē) | جُون (jūn) | جُولَای (jūlāy) | اَگَسْت (agast) |
| September | October | November | December |
| سِپْتِمْبَر (siptimbar) | اَکْتوبَر (aktōbar) | نُوِمْبَر (nuwimbar) | دِسِمْبَر (disimbar) |

### Etymology 3

Alternative form of مگر (magar).

#### Pronunciation

* (colloquial) IPA: /mej/

#### Preposition

می • (mey)
* (dialectal, Shiraz, Khesht, Konartakhteh, Dashtestan) except

#### Conjunction

می • (mey)
* (dialectal, Shiraz, Kazerun, Khesht, Konartakhteh, Dashtestan) but
* (dialectal, Shiraz, Khesht, Kazerun, Konartakhteh, Dashtestan) unless

### Etymology 4

Ultimately Borrowed from Latin mīra, either via French mi or English mi.

#### Noun

می • (mi)
* (music) E, Mi (the third note of the fixed-Do solfège scale)
* (music) Mi (the third note of the movable-Do solfège scale, i.e. the mediant)

### References

* ↑ Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 116

## Southwestern Fars
### Noun

می (mi)
* (Masarm, Deh Sarv) hair

## Ushojo
### Adjective

می (mī)
* mine

### Pronoun

می (mī)
* my