دارالفنون

Persian

Etymology

Pseudo-Arabism. Compare Ottoman Turkish دار الفنون (dar ül-fünun, “university”), modern Turkish darülfünun.

Pronunciation

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɒː.ɹol.fo.núːn]

Readings
Iranian reading?	dârolfonun

Noun

دارالفنون • (dâro-l-fonun)

1. (archaic) university

   Synonym: دانشگاه (dânešgâh)

Proper noun

دارالفنون • (dâro-l-fonun)

1. Dar ul-Funun (precursor institute of the University of Tehran)

Further reading

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