بیداری
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Persian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of بیدار (bidâr, “awake”) + ی (i, nominalizing suffix)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [beː.ðɑː.ɾiː]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [biː.d̪ɒː.ɹiː]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [be.d̪ɔ.ɾi]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | bēḏārī |
Dari reading? | bēdārī |
Iranian reading? | bidâri |
Tajik reading? | bedori |
Dari | بیداری |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | бедори |
Noun
[edit]بیداری • (bidâri)
- wakefulness, vigilance, watch
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 41:
- ز آنکه بیگلزار بلبل خامش است
غیبت خورشید بیداری کش است- za ānki bē-gulzār bulbul xāmuš ast
ğaybat-i xwarshēd bēdārī kuš ast - Because the nightingale is silent without the rose-garden:
the absence of the sun kills (the nightingale's) wakefulness.
- za ānki bē-gulzār bulbul xāmuš ast
References
[edit]- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “بیداری”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim