تهی

From Middle Persian twhyg (tuhīg, “empty; vain, illusory; barren”), from Proto-Iranian *tuŝyás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tuŝĉyás, from Proto-Indo-European *tus-sḱ-yós, from *tews- (“to be empty”). Cognate with Vedic Sanskrit तुच्छ्य (tucchyá).

تهی • (tohi)

1. empty (devoid of content)
   • 1928-1980, Sohrab Sepehri, "قایقی خواهم ساخت"

     قایق از تور تهی، و دل از آرزوی مروارید

     qâyeq az tur tohi, va del az ârezu-ye morvârid

2. hollow

• خالی‎ (xâli)

• Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004), “twhyg”, in A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols