غریق

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic غَرِيق (ḡarīq).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɣa.ˈɾiːq]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɣä.ɾíːq]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɣä.ɾíːq]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ɣä.ɾíːq]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ɣä.ɾíq]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qæ.ɹíːɢ̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʁä.ɾíq]

Readings
Classical reading?	ğarīq
Dari reading?	ğarīq
Iranian reading?	ğariğ
Tajik reading?	ġariq

Adjective

غریق • (ğariq)

1. drowned

   Synonym: (more common) غرق (ğarq)

   • 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 199:

     گهی ز حال سلیمی بپرس کز گریه
     ببحر عشق چو گرداب گشته است غریق

     gahē zi hāl-i salīmī bipurs k-az girya
     ba-bahr-i išq čū girdāb gašta ast ğarīq

     From time to time, ask how Selim is, for out of weeping
     He has become drowned in the whirlpool-like sea of love.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

2. (figurative) overwhelmed (by something)

Further reading

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