قافله
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See also: قافلة
Persian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic قَافِلَة (qāfila).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [qɑː.fi.ˈla]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [qɒː.fe.lé]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [qɔ.fi.lǽ]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | qāfila |
Dari reading? | qāfila |
Iranian reading? | ğâfele |
Tajik reading? | qofila |
Noun
[edit]قافِلِه • (qâfele) (plural قافلهها (qâfele-hâ))
- convoy; caravan
- Synonym: کارْوان (kârvân)
- c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels][1]:
- چون به قلزم رسد دو راه باشد یکی بر خشکی و یکی بر آب. آن چه به راه خشک میرود به پانزده روز به مکه رود و آن بیابانی است که سیصد فرسنگ باشد و بیشتر قافله مصر بدان راه رود
- čōn ba qulzum rasad du rāh bāšad yakē bar xuškī u yakē bar āb. ān či ba rāh-i xušk mē-rawad ba pānzdah rōz ba makka rawad w-ān biyābānē ast ki sēsad farsang bāšad u bēštar-i qāfila-yi misr bad-ān rāh rawad.
- When one arrives at Qulzum, there are two roads: one by land and one by water. One who goes by the land road reaches Mecca in fifteen days, and that is a desert three hundred parasangs wide. Most of the Egyptian caravans go by that road.