خواری

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Persian

Etymology

Compound of (xwār, “despicable”) +‎ (ī, suffix forming nouns from adjectives)

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading^?	xwārī
Dari reading^?	xārī
Iranian reading^?	xâri
Tajik reading^?	xori

Noun


Iranian Persian	خواری
Dari	خواری
Tajik	хори

خواری • (xvâri)

abjectness, contempt, baseness, abasement
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 1104:
  از پی طاق و طرم خواری کشند
  بر امید عز در خواری خوشند
  az pay-i tāq u turum xwārī kašand
  bar umēd-i 'izz dar xwārī xwašand
  For the sake of (earthly) pomp and grandeur they endure abasement;
  in the hope of glory they are happy in (their) abasement.

References

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

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