ریا

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Persian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɾi.jɑː]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ri.jɑː]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ri.jɑː]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ri.jɔː]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɹi.jɒː]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɾi.jɔ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	riyā
Dari reading^?	riyā
Iranian reading^?	riyâ
Tajik reading^?	riyo

Noun[edit]


Iranian Persian	ریا
Dari	ریا
Tajik	рийо

ریا • (riyâ)

hypocrisy, dissimulation
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3392:
  کاین نمازم را میامیز ای خدا
  با نماز ضالین و اهل ریا
  kên namâz-am râ may-amîz ay xudâ
  bâ namâz-i-zâlin u ahl-i-riyâ
  That is to say, “O God, do not mingle my prayer
  with the prayer of the erring and the hypocrites.”

Related terms[edit]

ریاکار (riyâkâr)
ریاکاری (riyâkâri)

References[edit]

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

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