ایثار

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Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِيثَار (ʔīṯār).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading^?	īsār
Dari reading^?	īsār
Iranian reading^?	isâr
Tajik reading^?	isor

Noun

ایثار • (isâr)

generosity, selflessness, altruism
- 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 100:
  حیف کآنجا بهر جان دادن مرا خود راه نیست
  کس بسویش هم نبرد از ننگ ایثار مرا
  hayf k-ānjā bahr-i jān dādan ma-rā xwad rāh nēst
  kas ba-sōyaš ham na-burd az nang īsār-i ma-rā
  A pity that I myself have no way to offer my soul ;
  Out of shame, nobody has taken my generous gift to her side.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

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

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