Meaning of مگر | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used to introduce a question to which the opposite answer is expected, or had been previously assumed; expresses surprise or disbelief.
2. unless
3. but; however
   Dari
4. it happened that...; used to introduce a narrative.
   archaic
5. as if
   obsolete

Examples

“مگر کتاب را نخواندی؟”

“مگه کتاب و نخوندی؟”

Didn't you read the book? / Oh, you didn't read the book?

“مگر غذا میخواهی؟”

“مگه غذا میخوای؟”

You don't want food, do you? / I thought you didn’t want food?

“گفت: مگر گوشت نیافته بودی و نقل که مرا و کدخدایم را بخورید؟”

He said, “Had you not found any meat or delicacy, that you had to ‘eat’ [slander] me and my chamberlain?”

“من میروم مگر او هم برود.”

“من میرم مگه اونم بره.”

I’ll go unless he goes too.

“مگر از روی جنازه من رد بشوی!”

[Not] unless you cross over my dead body!

“برف منظرۀ طبیعت را خیلی زیبا میسازد، مگر هوا را خیلی سرد میسازد.”

Snow makes the scenery of nature very beautiful, but [it also] makes the air very cold.

“زود میآمد که دردم را دوا سازد مگر باز گشت از در بچشم در فشان مسکین طبیب”

He had come early to cure my pain, but The helpless physician turned back from the door with eyes strewing pearls [metaphor: teardrops].

“تا وزیدست برو از تو نسیم ادبی زنده گشتست مگر از دم عیسی لاله”

As long as courteous breezes from you have wafted upon it, The tulip has become alive, as if from Jesus's breath.

“ز دریا مگر بر لب آمد حباب.”

[It was] as if bubbles were coming from the sea to its lips.

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