Word
خوشنویسی، به خصوص با قلمنی، سخت است.
Meaning
Calligraphy, especially with a reed pen, is hard.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of خوشنویسی، به خصوص با قلمنی، سخت است.
است
is
باbâ
with
سختsakht
difficult / hard
خوشنویسیkhoshnevisi
calligraphy
Questions & Answers about خوشنویسی، به خصوص با قلمنی، سخت است.
How is the word khoshnevisi (calligraphy) constructed?
It is a compound word made of three parts: khosh (good or beautiful), nevis (the present stem of neveshtan, meaning to write), and the noun-forming suffix -i. Literally, it means 'beautiful writing'.
Is be khosus treated as one word?
It is a fixed phrase of Arabic origin meaning 'especially' or 'in particular'. It consists of the preposition be (to/in) and khosus (particular). It acts as a single adverbial phrase in Farsi.
Why isn't there an ezafe (the 'e' sound) between ghalam (pen) and ney (reed)?
Ghalam-ney (reed pen) is treated as a single compound noun rather than a noun described by a modifier. Because it names a specific, distinct tool, the two words fuse together and drop the ezafe.
Why is there a slight gap instead of a full space in the middle of قلمنی?
That gap is created by a zero-width non-joiner. It stops the Farsi letters from connecting as they normally would, showing that ghalam and ney are distinct parts of a compound word without splitting them into two completely separate words.