مرکبات

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مُرَكَّبَات (murakkabāt), Arabic plural of مُرَكَّب (murakkab, “compound, composite”). In modern Persian, مرکب (morakkab) most often means "black ink" and the two terms have diverged semantically.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [mu.ɾa.kaβ.ˈbɑːt]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mʊ.ɾä.kʰäb.bɑ́ːt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mʊ.ɾä.kʰäb.bɑ́ːt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mʊ.ɾä.kʰäb.bɑ́ːt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mu.ɾä.kʰäb.bɔ́ːt̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mo.ɹæ.kʰʲæb.bɒ́ːt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mu.ɾä.kʰäb.bɔ́t̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	murakaḇḇāt
Dari reading?	murakabbāt
Iranian reading?	morakabbât
Tajik reading?	murakabbot

Noun

مرکبات • (morakabbât)

1. (collective) citrus fruits

   خونه مرتبه با یه باغچه پر از درختهای مرکبات.

   xune-ye morattab-e bâ ye bâğče por az deraxt-hâ-ye morakabbât.

   It's a tidy house with a garden full of citrus trees.

Further reading

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