Nava'i

English

Alternative forms

  • Navai, Nawai, Nawa'i, (via Uzbek) Navoiy

Etymology

From Classical Persian نَوَائِی (nawā'ī, literally “melodious”), from نَوَا (nawā, “melody”) + ـئِی (-'ī, suffix forming adjectives).

Proper noun

Nava'i

  1. The pen-name of Nizam al-Din Alisher Harawi (1441–1501), a Timurid poet.
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