# بهمن
## Arabic
### Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (whwmn’ /⁠wahman⁠/), see Persian بهمن (bahman) below.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bah.man/

### Noun

بَهْمَن • (bahman) m
* behen
** 1025, ابن سينا (Avicenna), القانون في الطب‎ [Canon Medicinae], Rome: Stamperia Orientale Medicea, published 1593, Liber 2, page 252:زعم قوم أن الريوند أصول بهمن في الصين ويجلب من ثم الى البلادThe people says that the rhubarb is the stems of the behen in China and it is imported from there into the bleds.
** white behen (Centaurea behen)
** red behen (Limonium vulgare)

#### Declension
### References

* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “بهمن”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 123
* Freytag, Georg (1830) “بهمن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 168

## Gulf Arabic
### Etymology

From Persian بهمن (bahman). The family is a Kuwaiti family of Persian descent, an ethnic group known in Kuwait as عيم (ʕayam).

### Pronunciation

* (Kuwait) IPA: /ˈbəhmən/

### Proper noun

بَهْمَن • (bahman)
* Kuwaiti family name; Bahman; Behman; Behmen

## Persian
### Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (whwmn’ /⁠wahman⁠/), from Old Persian *Vahumanah, name of the first Amahraspand (divine deity) in Zoroastrianism, guardian of cattle, in Avestan 𐬬𐬊𐬵𐬎 𐬨𐬀𐬥𐬀𐬵 (vohu manah). Also showing botanical meanings in Middle Persian, from which Classical Syriac ܒܗܡܢ (bahman) and Arabic بَهْمَن (bahman) are borrowed.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [bah.ˈman]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [bäɦ.mǽn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [bäɦ.mǽn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [bɑː.mǽn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [bɔː.mǽn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [bæɦ.mǽn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [bäɦ.mǽn]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Proper noun

بهمن • (bahman)
* Bahman, the eleventh month of the solar Persian calendar
* Name of the second day of any month of the solar Persian calendar
* a male given name, Bahman

### Noun

بهمن • (bahman)
* avalanche
* behen, which is cultivated for its flowers and bitter, pungent and potent root vegetable
** white behen (Centaurea behen)
** red behen (Limonium vulgare)
* common awn-grass (Stipa capensis)

### References

* Brockelmann, Carl (1928) Lexicon Syriacum (in Latin), 2nd edition, Halle: Max Niemeyer, published 1995, page 61a
* Ciancaglini, Claudia A. (2008) Iranian loanwords in Syriac (Beiträge zur Iranistik; 28)‎, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag
* Lagarde, Paul de (1866) Gesammelte Abhandlungen (in German), Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, page 20 Nr. 41
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “ب‍ﮩ‍من”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 212
* Vullers, Johann August (1855) “بهمن”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎ (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, pages 287b–288b