عهده

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Persian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Arabic عُهْدَة (ʕuhda).

Pronunciation[edit]

 

Readings
Classical reading? uhda
Dari reading? ohda
Iranian reading? ohde
Tajik reading? ühda

Noun[edit]

عهده (ohde)

  1. responsibility, charge, duty
    این کار به عهدهٔ شماست.in kâr be ohde-ye šomâ-st.This work is your responsibility.
    • c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels]‎[1]:
      شب به دیه باریاب بودم و از آنجا به راه سمنگان و طالقان به مروالرود شدم. پس به مرو رفتم و از آن شغل که به عهدهٔ من بود معاف خواستم و گفتم که مرا عزم سفر قبله است.
      šab ba dīh-i bāryāb būdam u az ānjā ba rāh-i samangān u tāluqān ba marwu-r-rūd šudam. pas ba marw raftam u az ān šuğl ki ba uhda-yi man būd mu'āf xwāstam u guftam ki ma-rā azm-i safar-i qibla ast.
      We were at the village of Bāryāb for the night, and from there, we went to Marw al-Rūd on the road to Samangān and Tāluqān. So we went to Marw, and I requested to be exempt from the job that was my duty and said that my desire was to journey to the Qibla [Mecca].

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