آب زدن

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Persian

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Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? āḇ zaḏan
Dari reading? āb zadan
Iranian reading? âb zadan
Tajik reading? ob zadan

Verb

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آب زدن (âb zadan)

  1. to sprinkle with water; to moisten
    • 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 105:
      خواهد سحری رفت بسیر آن شه خوبان
      ای دیده مخواب آب زن امشب همه ره را
      xwāhad saharē raft ba-sayr ān šah-i xūbān
      ay dīda maxwāb āb zan imšab hama rah rā
      The king/queen of beauties will leave on a journey at dawn;
      O eyes, do not sleep! Pour water [tears] on all the roads tonight.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Conjugation

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