Adjective
عریان • (ʼuryan)
- naked, nude, bare, not covered by clothing, not wearing any apparel
- Synonyms: چپلاق (çıplak), یالین (yalın)
Derived terms
- عریانلق (ʼuryanlık, “nakedness, nudity”)
- عریانی (ʼuryanî, “nakedness, nudity”)
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “عریان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 355
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “uryan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4995
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “uryân”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1349
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “عریان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 845
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Nudus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1157
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “üryan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عریان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1296
Pronunciation
More information Readings, Classical reading? ...
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Classical reading? |
uryān |
Dari reading? |
uryān |
Iranian reading? |
oryân |
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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