افتاده

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Persian

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? uftāḏa
Dari reading? aftāda
Iranian reading? oftâde
Tajik reading? aftoda

Verb

افتاده (oftâde)

  1. past participle of افتادن (oftâdan)

Noun

افتاده (oftâde) (plural افتادگان (oftâdegân) or افتاده‌ها (oftâde-hâ))

  1. humbled person, oppressed person
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 119:
      کی در حریم وصل ره چون منی بود
      افتاده‌های درد ترا خاک در بس است
      kay dar harīm-i wasl rah-i čūn manī buwad
      uftāda-hā-yi dard-i tu-rā xāk-i dar bas ast
      How shall there be a way for someone like me into the sanctum of meeting ?
      For those oppressed by love-pain for you, the dirt gate is enough.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

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