صید

See also: صيد

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَيْد (ṣayd).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [sajð]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säjd̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säjd̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [säjd̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [säjd̪̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sejd̪̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [säjd̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	sayd
Dari reading?	sayd
Iranian reading?	seyd
Tajik reading?	sayd

Noun

صید • (seyd)

1. hunt; hunting

   Synonym: شکار (šekâr)

2. fishing

   Synonym: ماهی‌گیری (mâhi-giri)

3. game, prey, animal hunted

   Synonym: شکار (šekâr)

   • 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 263:

     سوی ما دیدی و چین در ابروان انداختی
     قتل صید خویش کردی و کمان انداختی

     sō-yi mā dīdī u čīn dar abruwān andāxtī
     qatl-i sayd-i xwēš kardī u kamān andāxtī

     You looked in our direction, and your eyebrows frowned;
     You killed your prey and shot your bow.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

• صید کردن (seyd kardan)

Further reading

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