راه زدن

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Persian

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Readings
Classical reading? rāh zaḏan
Dari reading? rāh zadan
Iranian reading? râh zadan
Tajik reading? roh zadan

Verb

راه زدن (râh zadan)

  1. to plunder on the road; to waylay and loot (e.g. a caravan); (poetic) also used in poetic metaphor.
    • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 184”, in دیوان حافظ:
      جنگِ هفتاد و دو ملت همه را عذر بنه
      چون ندیدند حقیقت ره افسانه زدند
      jang-i haftād u du millat hama rā uzr binih
      čūn na-dīdand haqīqat rah-i afsāna zadand
      In the war of the seventy-two sects, pardon them all;
      Because they did not see the truth, they plundered myth.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
    • c. 1490, Nūr-ud-Dīn 'Abd-ur-Rahmān Jāmī, خردنامهٔ اسکندری:
      منم همچو آن خاد حرمان زده
      ره خرمی بر دل و جان زده
      man-am hamčū ān xād hirmān zada
      rah-i xurramī bar dil o jān zada
      I am just like that kite, struck by disappointment;
      The way of happiness is waylaid to my heart and soul.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

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