فایده
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Persian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- فائده (fâ'ede)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic فَائِدَة (fāʔida).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [fɑː.ji.ˈða]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [fɔ.ji.d̪ǽ]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | fāyiḏa |
Dari reading? | fāyida |
Iranian reading? | fâyede |
Tajik reading? | foyida |
Noun
[edit]Dari | فایده |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | фоида |
فایده • (fâyede) (plural فواید (favâyed) or فایدهها (fâyede-hâ))
- advantage, benefit, profit, gain, use
- Synonym: سود (sud)
- c. 1075, Abu'l-Fażl Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Bayhaqī, تاریخ بیهقی [Tārīkh-i Bayhaqī]:
- سوم روز احمد ارسلان گفت: زندگانی خداوند دراز باد، آنچه تقدیر است ناچار بباشد، در غمناک بودن بس فایده نیست.
- siwum rōz ahmad-i arslān guft: zindagānī-yi xudāwand darāz bād, ānči taqdīr ast nāčār bibāšad, dar ğamnāk budan bas fāyida nēst.
- On the third day, Ahmad Arslān said: "May my lord's life be long! What is preordained is unavoidable. There is no use in being sad any longer."
- c. 1075, Abu'l-Fażl Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Bayhaqī, تاریخ بیهقی [Tārīkh-i Bayhaqī]:
- فایده نباشد از رفتن که راهها ناایمن شده است و تنها نباید رفت که خللی افتد.
- fāyida na-bāšad az raftan ki rāh-hā nā-ēman šuda ast u tanhā na-bāyad raft ki xalalē uftad.
- There appears to be no benefit to going forth, since the roads have become unsafe, and one must not go alone lest a danger befall them.
Derived terms
[edit]- فایدهناک (fâyedenâk, “beneficial, profitable”)
- فایده داشتن (fâyede dâštan)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “فایده”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press