تحکم

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَحَكُّم (taḥakkum).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ta.hak.ˈkum]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.ɦäk.kʰʊ́m]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.ɦäk.kʰʊ́m]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɑːäk.kʰʊ́m]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɔːäk.kʰúm]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰæ.ɦækʲ.kʰóm]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.ɦäk.kʰúm]

Readings
Classical reading?	tahakkum
Dari reading?	tahakkum
Iranian reading?	tahakkom
Tajik reading?	tahakkum

Noun

تحکم • (tahakkom)

1. domineering, highhandedness
   • c. 1180, Khāqānī, “Qaṣīda 8”, in دیوان خاقانی‎^[1]:

     مرا از بعد پنجه ساله اسلام
     نزیبد چون صلیبی بند بر پا
     روم ناقوس بوسم زین تحکم
     شوم زنار بندم زین تعدا

     ma-rā az ba'd-i panjah sāla islām
     na-zēbad čūn salībī band bar pā
     rawam nāqūs bōsam z-īn tahakkum
     šawam zunnār band-am z-īn ta'adda

     After fifty years of Islam for me,
     I do not deserve crucifying chains on my feet.
     I shall go kiss the church-bell out of this highhandedness,
     I shall become a girdle-wearer out of this oppression.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “تحکم”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “تحکم”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press