هجو
Appearance
Persian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic هَجْو (hajw).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [had͡ʒw]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [hæd͡ʒv]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [häd͡ʒw]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | hajw |
Dari reading? | hajw |
Iranian reading? | hajv |
Tajik reading? | hajv |
Noun
[edit]هجو • (hajv)
- satire, lampoon
- genre of classical poetry dedicated to mockery of someone, often vulgar
- c. 1120, Sanā'ī Ghaznawī, دیوان سنایی[1]:
- نه یکی را به خشم کردم هجو
نه یکی را به طمع بستودم
به هوا و به شهوت نفسی
جان پاكيزه را نیالودم- na yakē rā ba xišm kardam hajw
na yakē rā ba tama' bisutūdam
ba hawā u ba šahwat-i nafsī
jān-i pākīza rā nay-ālūdam - Not a single person did I lampoon in anger,
Not a single person did I praise out of greed.
I did not sully my pristine soul
With the lust and libido of the self.
- na yakē rā ba xišm kardam hajw
- genre of classical poetry dedicated to mockery of someone, often vulgar
Further reading
[edit]- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “هجو”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “هجو”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press