رقعه
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Persian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic رُقْعَة (ruqʕa).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ɾuq.ˈʔa]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ɹoʁ.ʔé]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ɾuq.ʔǽ]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | ruq'a |
Dari reading? | ruq'a |
Iranian reading? | roğ'e |
Tajik reading? | ruqʾa |
Noun
[edit]رقعه • (roq'e) (plural رقعهها (roq'e-hâ) or رقاع (reqâ') or رقع (roqa'))
- patch (for mending cloth)
- sheet of paper; (by extension) letter
- 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 131:
- گه به تقریب گدایی گه برسم دادخواه
رقعهها سویش بچندین مکر و فن خواهم نوشت- gah ba taqrīb-i gadāyī gah ba rasm-i dādxwāh
ruq'a-hā sōyaš ba čandīn makr u fan xwāham niwišt - Sometimes approaching like a beggar, sometimes in the manner of a supplicant,
I will write her pages [letters] with such artifice and skill.
- gah ba taqrīb-i gadāyī gah ba rasm-i dādxwāh
Further reading
[edit]- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “رقعه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim