سروری
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Persian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From سرور (sarvar, “master”) + ی (-i, nominalizing suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [saɾ.wa.ˈɾiː]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [sæɹ.væ.ɹíː]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [säɾ.vä.ɾí]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | sarwarī |
Dari reading? | sarwarī |
Iranian reading? | sarvari |
Tajik reading? | sarvari |
Noun
[edit]سروری • (sarvari)
- lordship, sovereignty, leadership, command
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 2621:
- نفس همچون زن پی چارهگری
گاه خاکی گاه جوید سروری- nafs hamčon zan pay čaragarî
gâh xâki gâh joyad sarwarî - Like the wife, the flesh, in order to contrive the means (of gratifying its desires), is at one time seeking humility and at another domination.
- nafs hamčon zan pay čaragarî
References
[edit]- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “سروری”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim