Pronunciation
More information Classical reading?, Dari reading? ...
Readings
Classical reading? |
uryān |
Dari reading? |
uryān |
Iranian reading? |
oryân |
Tajik reading? |
uryon |
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Adjective
عریان • (oryân)
- naked, nude
- Synonyms: برهنه (berahne), لخت (loxt)
c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 71:همچو نی دم ز وفای تو زنم تا دم حشر
استخوانهای مرا خاک چو عریان سازد- hamčū nay dam zi wafā-yi tu zanam tā dam-i hašr
ustuxwānhā-yi ma-rā xāk čū uryān sāzad - Like the flute, I will breathe with constancy for you until the breath of Resurrection Day,
And the earth makes [strips] my bones as if they were naked.
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “عریان”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim