دم زدن

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Persian

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Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? dam zaḏan
Dari reading? dam zadan
Iranian reading? dam zadan
Tajik reading? dam zadan

Verb

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دم زدن (dam zadan)

  1. to breathe
    Synonym: نفس کشیدن (nafas kešidan)
    • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 152”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎[1]:
      در ازل پرتوِ حسنت ز تجلی دم زد
      عشق پیدا شد و آتش به همه عالم زد
      dar azal partaw-i husn-at zi tajalli dam zad
      išq paydā šud u ātiš ba hama ālam zad
      In pre-eternity, your beauty's ray let out a breath from epiphany;
      Love emerged and set fire to the entire world.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  2. to talk
    Synonyms: حرف زدن (harf zadan), صحبت کردن (sohbat kardan)
  3. to claim; to pretend
    Synonym: ادعا کردن (edde'â kardan)

Conjugation

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