زانو زدن

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Persian

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Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? zānū zaḏan
Dari reading? zānū zadan
Iranian reading? zânu zadan
Tajik reading? zonu zadan

Verb

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زانو زدن (zânu zadan)

  1. (intransitive) to kneel, to kneel down
    • 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 108:
      تا سر بر آستان محبت نهاده‌ایم
      زانو زد سپهر برای سلام ما
      tā sar bar āstān-i muhabbat nihāda'ēm
      zānū zad sipihr barā-yi salām-i mā
      As long as I laid my head down on the threshold of love,
      The celestial spheres knelt down to greet me.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Conjugation

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