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قلزم

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic اَلْقُلْزُم (al-qulzum), from Ancient Greek Κλύσμα (Klúsma). "Red Sea" > "ocean" (in general).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? qulzum
Dari reading? qulzum
Iranian reading? ğolzom
Tajik reading? qulzum

Proper noun

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قلزم (qolzom)

  1. (historical) Clysma (ancient town on the Gulf of Suez)
  2. (archaic) the Red Sea; short for دریای قلزم (daryâ-ye qolzom) or بحر قلزم (bahr-e qolzom).

Noun

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قلزم (qolzom)

  1. (figurative, poetic) great sea; ocean
    • 1932, Muhammad Iqbal, Javid Nama [Book of Eternity]‎[1]:
      آنچه دیدم می نگنجد در بیان
      تن ز سهمش بیخبر گردد ز جان
      من چه دیدم قلزمی دیدم ز خون
      قلزمی ، طوفان برون ، طوفان درون
      ānči dīdam mē-na-gunjad dar bayān
      tan zi sahm-aš bē-xabar gardad zi jān
      man či dīdam qulzumē dīdam zi xūn
      qulzumē, tūfān birūn, tūfān darūn.
      What I saw cannot be held in speech;
      My body, out of fear, became unaware of the soul;
      What did I see? I saw an ocean out of blood;
      An ocean, a storm inside, a storm outside.

Descendants

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