قافله

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Persian

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Arabic قَافِلَة (qāfila).

    Pronunciation

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    Readings
    Classical reading? qāfila
    Dari reading? qāfila
    Iranian reading? ğâfele
    Tajik reading? qofila

    Noun

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    قافِلِه (qâfele) (plural قافله‌ها (qâfele-hâ))

    1. convoy; caravan
      Synonym: کارْوان (kârvân)
      • c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels]‎[1]:
        چون به قلزم رسد دو راه باشد یکی بر خشکی و یکی بر آب. آن چه به راه خشک می‌رود به پانزده روز به مکه رود و آن بیابانی است که سیصد فرسنگ باشد و بیشتر قافله مصر بدان راه رود
        čōn ba qulzum rasad du rāh bāšad yakē bar xuškī u yakē bar āb. ān či ba rāh-i xušk mē-rawad ba pānzdah rōz ba makka rawad w-ān biyābānē ast ki sēsad farsang bāšad u bēštar-i qāfila-yi misr bad-ān rāh rawad.
        When one arrives at Qulzum, there are two roads: one by land and one by water. One who goes by the land road reaches Mecca in fifteen days, and that is a desert three hundred parasangs wide. Most of the Egyptian caravans go by that road.

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