روضه

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Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic رَوْضَة (garden). The religious sense is generalized from the title of the book روضة الشهدا (rowzat-osh-shohadâ, Garden of the Martyrs), an extremely popular work describing the tragedy at Karbala written by Husayn Kâshefi (lived 1436—1504).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? rawza
Dari reading? rawza
Iranian reading? rowze
Tajik reading? ravza

Noun

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روضه (rowze)

  1. (Shia Islam) eulogy of the Battle of Karbala
    روضه شب عاشوراrowze-ye šab-e âšurâeulogy of the night of Ashura
  2. (archaic or Islam) garden
    روضه بهشتrowze-ye beheštgarden of paradise
    • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 309”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎[1]:
      بزم‌گاهی دل‌نشان، چون قصر فردوس برین
      گلشنی پیرامنش چون روضهٔ دارالسلام
      bazm-gāhē dil-nišān, čūn qasr-i firdaws-e barīn
      gulšanē pērāmun-aš čūn rawza-yi dār-os-salām
      A banquet place which soothes the heart, like the castle of highest paradise,
      A rose field whose surroundings are like the garden of the Abode of Peace.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

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