آبخور
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Persian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
آب (âb, “water”) + خور (xor, present stem of خوردن (xordan, “to eat, to consume”)), from Middle Persian [Term?] (/ābxwar/).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ʔɑːβ.ˈxʷaɾ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ʔɒːb.xóɹ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ʔɔb.χúɾ]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | āḇxwar |
Dari reading? | ābxur |
Iranian reading? | âbxor |
Tajik reading? | obxur |
Noun[edit]
آبخور • (âbxor)
- irrigable land
- watering place; spring of water
- Synonym: چشمه (češme)
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 270:
- هر دو نی خوردند از یک آبخور
این یکی خالی و آن پر از شکر- har du nay xwardand az yak ābxwar
īn yakē xālī u ān pur az šikar - Both reeds [canes] drank from the same water-source; this one is empty and that one full of sugar.
- har du nay xwardand az yak ābxwar
- (shipbuilding) draft; draught (maximum depth of a ship in water)
- (figurative) destiny; fate