سیاح

Persian

Etymology

  • Borrowed from Arabic سَيَّاح (sayyāḥ).

    Pronunciation

     

    Readings
    Classical reading? sayyāh
    Dari reading? sayyāh
    Iranian reading? sayyâh
    Tajik reading? sayyoh

    Noun

    سیاح • (sayyāh / sayyâh) (plural سیاح‌ها (sayyāh-hā / sayyâh-hâ), or سیاحان (sayyāhān / sayyâhân), Tajik spelling сайёҳ) (Dari; dated in Iran)

    1. traveller
      Synonym: مسافر (musāfir / mosâfer)
      • c. 1688, محمد ربیع بن ابراهیم [Moḥammad Rabiʾ b. Ebrāhim], “Introduction”, in سفینه سلیمانی [Safine-ye Solaymani]:
        سفینه سلیمانی که سیاحان محیط عبودیت را از تصادم بتلاطم انواع امواج بیکران سرگشتگی بساحل نجات تواند رسانید []
        safīna-yi sulaymānī ki sayyāhān-i muhīt-i ubūdiyat rā az tasādum ba talātum-i anwā'-i amwāj-i bīkarān-i sargaštigī ba sāhil-i nijāt tawānad rasānīd []
        The ship of Sulaimān, which can deliver the travellers of the ocean of servitude [to God] from collision, through the dashing of ranks of unbounded waves of perplexity, to the coast of salvation []
    2. tourist
      Synonyms: گردشگر (gardišgar / gardešgar), (Iran) توریست (turist)

    Proper noun

    سیاح • (sayyāh / sayyâh) (Tajik spelling Сайёҳ)

    1. a surname, Sayyah, from Arabic
    Persian terms derived from the Arabic root س ي ح (0 c, 1 e)