سیار

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سَيَّار (sayyār).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [saj.ˈjɑːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säj.jɑ́ːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säj.jɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [säj.jɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [säj.jɔ́ːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sej.jɒ́ːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [säj.jɔ́ɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	sayyār
Dari reading?	sayyār
Iranian reading?	seyyâr
Tajik reading?	sayyor

Adjective

سیار • (sayyâr)

1. itinerant, wandering

   فروشنده سیار ― forušande-ye sayyâr ― itinerant salesman

   • c. 1100, Masʿūd-i Saʿd-i Salmān, “Qaṣīda 121”, in دیوان مسعود سعد سلمان‎^[1]:

     به مجلس اندر رویش بلند خورشیدست
     به معرکه در تیرش ستاره سیار

     ba majlis andar rōy-aš buland xwaršēd ast
     ba ma'raka dar tīr-aš sitāra sayyār

     In the gathering, his face is the lofty sun;
     In the battlefield, his arrow is a wandering star.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

2. field-, traveling, mobile

   دادگاه سیار ― dâdgâh-e sayyâr ― mobile court

   بیمارستان سیار ― bimârestân-e sayyâr ― field hospital

Further reading

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