رفو

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَفْو (rafw, “finedrawing”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɾa.fuː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [rä.fuː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [rä.fuː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [rä.fuː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [rä.fu]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɹæ.fuː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɾä.fu]

Readings
Classical reading?	rafū
Dari reading?	rafū
Iranian reading?	rafu
Tajik reading?	rafu

Dari	رفو
Iranian Persian
Tajik	рафу

Noun

رفو • (rafu)

1. finedrawing, darning
2. mending
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3882:

     چون شکسته بند آمد دست او
     پس رفو باشد یقین اشکست او

     čōn šikasta band āmad dast-i ō
     bas rafū bāšad yaqīn aškast-i ō

     Inasmuch as His hand binds what is broken,
     it follows that His breaking is assuredly mending.

References

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