رقعه

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رُقْعَة (ruqʕa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɾuq.ˈʔa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [rʊq.ʔǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [rʊq.ʔǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [rʊ.qǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ru.qǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɹoʁ.ʔé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɾuq.ʔǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	ruq'a
Dari reading?	ruq'a
Iranian reading?	roğ'e
Tajik reading?	ruqʾa

Noun

رقعه • (roq'e) (plural رقعه‌ها (roq'e-hâ) or رقاع (reqâ') or رقع (roqa'))

1. patch (for mending cloth)
2. sheet of paper; (by extension) letter
   • c. 1100, Masʿūd-i Saʿd-i Salmān, “Qaṣīda 167”, in دیوان مسعود سعد سلمان‎^[1]:

     نیز منویس نامه‌های امید
     بیش مفرست رقعه‌های نیاز

     nēz maniwis nāma-hā-yi ummēd
     bēš mafirist ruq'a-hā-yi niyāz

     Do not write to me letters of hope either;
     Send no more pages of supplication.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

   • 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 131:

     گه به تقریب گدایی گه برسم دادخواه
     رقعه‌ها سویش بچندین مکر و فن خواهم نوشت

     gah ba taqrīb-i gadāyī gah ba rasm-i dādxwāh
     ruq'a-hā sōyaš ba čandīn makr u fan xwāham niwišt

     Sometimes approaching like a beggar, sometimes in the manner of a supplicant,
     I will write her pages [letters] with such artifice and skill.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “رقعه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim