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Persian
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭫𐭲𐭩 (ʾlty /ard/), from Old Persian 𐎠𐎼𐎫 (a-r-t /r̥taʰ/), from Proto-Iranian *Hr̥táh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hr̥tás. Cognate with Avestan 𐬀𐬴𐬀 (aṣ̌a, “truth”), Sanskrit ऋत (ṛtá, “fixed order, truth”).
Pronunciation
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| Classical reading?
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ard, ird
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| Dari reading?
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ard, ird
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| Iranian reading?
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ard, erd
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| Tajik reading?
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ard, ird
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Noun
ارد • (ard or erd)
- (obsolete) twenty-fifth day of the month
c. 1011, Abu'l-Qāsim Firdawsī, “The Reign of Shāpūr”, in شاهنامه [Book of Kings]:یکی شارستان نام شاپور گرد
برآورد و پرداخت در روز ارد- yakē šāristān nām šāpūr gird
bar-āward u pardāxt dar rōz-i ird - A city, by the name of Shāpūr-gird,
He raised up and erected, on the twenty-fifth day.
Proper noun
ارد • (ard)
- (Zoroastrianism) Ard, a goddess and divine assistant of Spenta Armaiti, thought to preside over the twenty-fifth day
1800s?, کی بهرام, در صفت دوازده امام و چهارده معصوم گویم, published 1942:نهم عزیز چو ارد ایزد و دهم اشتاد
بهوش باش که گفتم اگر تو نادانی- nohom aziz čo ard izad o dahom aštâd
be huš bâš ke goftam agar to nâdân-i - Since the ninth dear one is the divine Ard and the tenth is Ashtad,
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