خفارت
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Persian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic خُفَارَة (ḵufāra).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [xu.fɑː.ˈɾat]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [xo.fɒː.ɹǽt̪]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [χu.fɔ.ɾǽt̪]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | xufārat |
Dari reading? | xufārat |
Iranian reading? | xofârat |
Tajik reading? | xuforat |
Noun
[edit]خفارت • (xofârat)
- (archaic) protection; safeguarding
- (archaic) protection fee
- c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels][1]:
- از مغرب قافلهای عظیم آمده بود. و آن سال به در مدینه شریفه عرب از ایشان خفارت خواست به گاه بازگشتن از حج و میان ایشان جنگ برخاست و از مغربیان زیادت از دو هزار آدمی کشته شد و بسی به مغرب نشدند.
- az mağrib qāfilayē azīm āmada būd. wa ān sāl ba dar-i madīna-yi šarīfa arab az ēšān xufārat xwāst ba gāh-i bāzgaštan az hajj u miyān-i ēšān jang barxāst u az mağribīyān ziyādat az du hazār ādamī kušta šud u basē ba mağrib na-šudand.
- A grand caravan had arrived from the Maghreb. And that year, at the gate of the Noble City [of Mecca], the Bedouins demanded protection money for their return from the hajj pilgrimage. A battle broke out between the two, and more than two thousand men out of the Maghrebis were killed. Many did not return to the Maghreb.