سروقد

Persian

Etymology

From سرو (sarv, “cypress”) +‎ قد (qad, “stature, height”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [saɾw ˈqað]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säɾw qǽd̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säɾw qǽd̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [säɾw qǽd̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [säɾw qǽd̪̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sæɹv qǽd̪̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [säɾw qǽd̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	sarw qaḏ
Dari reading?	sarw qad
Iranian reading?	sarv ğad
Tajik reading?	sarv qad

Adjective

سروقد • (sarvqad)

1. (poetic) of a stature like a cypress; tall, slender, and beautiful
   • 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 267:

     ز جمله سروقدان خسروی ترا زیبد
     چه خسروانه و عالی جناب می‌گذری

     zi jumla sarwqadān xusrawī tu-rā zēbad
     či xusrawāna u ālī jināb mē-gzarī

     Kingship over all the cypress-statured beauties befits you;
     How kingly and noble a manner you pass by!

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

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