مورخ

See also: مؤرخ, موزج, and موزح

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مُؤَرِّخ (muʔarriḵ). The modern Iranian pronunciation may be a spelling pronunciation.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [mu.ʔaɾ.ˈɾix]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mo.væɹ.ɹéx]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [muäɾ.ɾíχ]

Readings
Classical reading?	mu'arrix
Iranian reading?	movarrex
Tajik reading?	muarrix

Noun

Dari	مورخ
Iranian Persian
Tajik	муаррих

مورخ • (movarrex) (plural مورخان (movarrexân) or مورخ‌ها (movarrex-hâ))

1. historian
   • c. 1599, Bahāʾ al‐Dīn ʿĀmilī, “Section I”, in کشکول‎^[1]:

     در یکی از کتب تاریخ پس از آن که مورخ انکار می‌کند که کسی از فرط شوق مرده باشد، می‌سراید […]

     dar yakē az kutub-i tārīx pas az ān ki mu'arrix inkār mē-kunad ki kasē az fart-i šawq murda bāšad, mē-sarāyad […]

     In one of the history books, after the historian denies that anyone has died of excessive love-longing, he says in verse […]

     (Classical Persian romanization)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “مورخ”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “مورخ”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press