قامت

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Arabic

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Verb

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قَامَتْ (qāmat) (form I) /qaː.mat/

  1. third-person feminine singular past active of قَامَ (qāma)

Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic قَامَة (qāma).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? qāmat
Dari reading? qāmat
Iranian reading? ğâmat
Tajik reading? qomat

Noun

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قامت (qâmat)

  1. stature, figure
    • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 99”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎[1]:
      دو تا شد قامتم همچون کمانی
      ز غم پیوسته چون ابروی فرخ
      du tā šud qāmat-am hamčūn kamānē
      zi ğam-i paywasta čūn abrū-yi farrux
      My stature became crooked just like a bow,
      Or like your blessed eyebrows, from everlasting grief.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

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