شیون

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Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (šywn /⁠šēwan⁠/, lament), from Proto-Iranian *xšai- (to lament, to weep); further connections unclear.[1]

Pronunciation

 

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Readings
Classical reading? šēwan
Dari reading? šēwan
Iranian reading? šivan
Tajik reading? ševan
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Noun

شیون (šivan) (plural شیون‌ها (šivan-hâ))

  1. lament, lamentation, wail
    • 2024 May 11, “رای نمادین مجمع عمومی به عضویت کامل فلسطین در سازمان ملل”, in YouTube, BBC Persian:
      پیش از آنکه پزشکان خسته بتوانند او را نجات دهند، در میان شیون همسرش جان می‌دهد.
      piš az ân-ke pezeškân-e xaste betavânand u râ nejât dehand, dar miyân-e šivan-e hamsar-aš jân mi-dehad.
      Before the exhausted doctors can save him, he dies amid his wife's wails.

References

  1. Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

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