pitance
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ترجمه به فارسی
- واژهنامه · French & English to Persian Epistemological Dictionary pittance Old French pitance "allowance of food to a monk or poor person" from Medieval Latin "pietantia" the noun from *pietare "to show pity, compassion" based on Latin pietas "piety." "Pietas" also entered English via Old French pite as "pity" and as "piety" (devotion to a divinity). The Italian form, "Pietà," always capitalized, has come to refer to representations of the Virgin Mary with the body of Christ on her lap. (andak-)jira( ye xorâki) nân e be-xor-na-mir (dast-mozd e )cender-qâz + So long as it was necessary to the bare subsistence of the human race that most men should work very long hours for a pittance, so long no civilization was possible except an aristocratic one (B. RUSSELL, Political Ideals )