قامت

Arabic

Verb

قَامَتْ • (qāmat) (form I)

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

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَامَة (qāma).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [qɑː.ˈmat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qɑː.mǽt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qɑː.mǽt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [qɑː.mǽt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qɔː.mǽt̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qɒː.mǽt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [qɔ.mǽt̪]

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

Noun

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

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “قامت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim