تجاهل‌العارف

Persian

Examples
این عارض است یا مه یا آفتاب تابان؟ in ârez ast yâ mah yâ âftâb-e tâbân? Is this [your] face, or the moon, or the radiant sun? [said to a lover]

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Arabic تَجَاهُل الْعَارِف (tajāhul al-ʕārif, literally “the feigned ignorance of one who is knowledgeable”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ta.d͡ʒɑː.hu.lul.ʔɑː.ˈɾif]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.d͡ʒɑː.ɦʊ.lʊl.ʔɑː.ɾɪ́f]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.d͡ʒɑː.ɦʊ.lʊl.ʔɑː.ɾɪ́f]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.d͡ʒɑː.wʊ.lʊ.lɑː.ɾɪ́f]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.d͡ʒɔː.wu.lu.lɔː.ɾíf]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰæ.d͡ʒɒː.ɦo.lol.ʔɒː.ɹéf]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.d͡ʒɔ.ɦu.lul.ʔɔ.ɾíf]

Readings
Classical reading?	tajāhulu-l-'ārif
Dari reading?	tajāhulu-l-'ārif
Iranian reading?	tajâholo-l-'âref
Tajik reading?	tajohulu-l-ʾorif

Noun

تجاهل‌العارف • (tajâholo-l-'âref) (poetry, rhetoric)

1. feigned ignorance (as a rhetorical device)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “تجاهل العارف”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim