سیاح
Persian
Etymology
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Arabic سَيَّاح (sayyāḥ)bor.
Persian سیاح
Borrowed from Arabic سَيَّاح (sayyāḥ).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /saj.ˈjaːh/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [säj.jɑːʱ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [sæj.jɒːʱ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [säj.jɔʱ]
| 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)
- 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 […]
- tourist
- Synonyms: گردشگر (gardišgar / gardešgar), (Iran) توریست (turist)
Proper noun
سیاح • (sayyāh / sayyâh) (Tajik spelling Сайёҳ)
- a surname, Sayyah, from Arabic
Related terms
Persian terms derived from the Arabic root س ي ح (0 c, 1 e)