جهانگرد
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Persian
Etymology
From جهان (jahān, “world”) + گرد (gard, present stem of گشتن (gaštan, “to turn, to walk around, to tour”)).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key):
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key):
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key):
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | jahāngard |
| Dari reading? | jahāngard |
| Iranian reading? | jahângard |
| Tajik reading? | jahongard |
Noun
| Dari | جهانگرد |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | ҷаҳонгард |
جهانگرد • (jahângard)
Derived terms
- جهانگردی (jahângardi)
Adjective
جهانگرد • (jahângard)
- (obsolete) traveling or circling the world
- c. 1200, Kamāl ud-Dīn Iṣfahānī, سوگندنامه [Book of Oaths]:
- به آفتاب جهانگرد و ظلّ گوشهنشین
به چرخ نادرهزای و جهان مردشکار […]- ba āftāb-i jahān-gard u zill-i gōša-nišīn
ba čarx-i nādira-zāy u jahān-i mard-šikār - By the sunlight that circles the world, by the shadow that sits in the corner,
By the heaven that brings forth rarities, by the world that hunts down men
- ba āftāb-i jahān-gard u zill-i gōša-nišīn
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “جهانگرد”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim