علیم

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَلِيم (ʕalīm).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔa.liːm]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.liːm]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.liːm]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔä.liːm]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔä.lim]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæ.liːm]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.lim]

Readings
Classical reading?	alīm
Dari reading?	alīm
Iranian reading?	alim
Tajik reading?	alim

Adjective

علیم • (alim)

1. (literary) knowledgeable, knowing, learned
2. (of God) knowing, all-knowing
   • 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 210:

     دی از اندوه تو نی مرده بدم نی زنده
     حق علیمست که امروز ازان هم بترم

     dī az andūh-i tō nē murda budam nē zinda
     haq alīm ast ki imrōz az ān ham bataram

     Yesterday, I grieved so much for you that I was neither living nor dead;
     God knows that today, I am even worse off than that.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

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