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بهونه (bahune) (colloquial Iranian)

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (wh'nk' /⁠wihānag⁠/), from Proto-Iranian [Term?].

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ba.hɑː.ˈna]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bä.ɦɑː.nǽ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [bɑːɑː.nǽ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bɔːɔː.nǽ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bæ.ɦɒː.né]
- (Tehrani) IPA^(key): [bæ.ɦuː.né]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bä.ɦɔ.nǽ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	bahāna
Dari reading^?	bahāna
Iranian reading^?	bahâne
Tajik reading^?	bahona

بهانه • (bahâne) (plural بهانه‌ها (bahâne-hâ))

excuse (explanation designed to avoid guilt)
- c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 106:
  باشد که بنوشیم ز دستت قدح پر
  کردیم بهانه بمیان باده حوری را
  bāšad ki binōšēm zi dastat qadah-i pur
  kardēm bahāna ba-miyān-i bāda hūrī rā
  Perhaps I shall drink a full goblet from your hand;
  Amid the wine, I have made my excuses to the houri
  [saying that he will not accept the wine of paradise, since drinking with the beloved is better].

→ Azerbaijani: bəhanə
→ Hindi: बहाना (bahānā)
→ Ottoman Turkish: بهانه (bahâne)
- Turkish: bahane, mahana, mahane, mahna
- Middle Armenian: մահանայ (mahanay)
  - Armenian: մահանա (mahana)
→ Turkmen: bahana
→ Uyghur: بانا (bana)
→ Urdu: بہانہ
→ Uzbek: bahona

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “بهانه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim