صدراعظم

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish صدر اعظم (sadr-ı azam).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ˈsað.ɾi ʔaʔ.ˈzam]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sǽd̪.ɾɪ ʔäʔ.zǽm]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sǽd̪.ɾɪ ʔäʔ.zǽm]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sǽd̪ɾɪ ʔɑː.zǽm]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [sǽd̪ɾi ʔɔː.zǽm]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sǽd̪.ɹe ʔæʔ.zǽm]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [sǽd̪.ɾi ʔäʔ.zǽm]

Readings
Classical reading?	saḏr-i a'zam
Dari reading?	sadr-i a'zam
Iranian reading?	sadr-e a'zam
Tajik reading?	sadr-i aʾzam

Noun

صدراعظم • (sadr-e a'zam)

1. Chancellor

   صدراعظم کنونی آلمان

   sadr-e a'zam-e konuni-ye almân

   the current Chancellor of Germany

2. (historical, under the Ottomans and Qajars) Prime Minister, grand vizier

Further reading

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