خرام

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [xi.ˈɾɑːm]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xɪ.ɾɑ́ːm]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xɪ.ɾɑ́ːm]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xɪ.ɾɑ́ːm]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xi.ɾɔ́ːm]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xe.ɹɒ́ːm]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χi.ɾɔ́m]

Readings
Classical reading?	xirām
Dari reading?	xirām
Iranian reading?	xerâm
Tajik reading?	xirom

Verb

خرام • (xerâm)

1. present stem of خرامیدن (xerâmidan, “to strut, to walk elegantly”)

Noun

خرام • (xerâm)

1. elegant gait
   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 133:

     ای گل بجمال چمن آرای تو محتاج
     طرفی بخرام قد رعنای تو محتاج

     ay gul ba-jamāl-i čaman ārāī tō muhtāj
     tarfī ba-xirām-i qad-i ra'nā-yi tō muhtāj

     O rose, [I] need your meadow-adorning beauty;
     [I] need the direction of the elegant gait of your fair stature.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

2. beautiful person with an elegant gait

Further reading

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