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Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic رَوْضَة (“garden”). The religious sense is generalized from the title of the book روضة الشهدا (rowzat-osh-shohadâ, “Garden of the Martyrs”), an extremely popular work describing the tragedy at Karbala written by Husayn Kâshefi (lived 1436—1504).
Pronunciation
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| Classical reading?
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rawza
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| Dari reading?
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rawza
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| Iranian reading?
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rowze
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| Tajik reading?
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ravza
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Noun
روضه • (rowze)
- (Shia Islam) eulogy of the Battle of Karbala
- روضه شب عاشورا ― rowze-ye šab-e âšurâ ― eulogy of the night of Ashura
- (archaic or Islam) garden
- روضه بهشت ― rowze-ye behešt ― garden of paradise
c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 309”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]:بزمگاهی دلنشان، چون قصر فردوس برین
گلشنی پیرامنش چون روضهٔ دارالسلام- bazm-gāhē dil-nišān, čūn qasr-i firdaws-e barīn
gulšanē pērāmun-aš čūn rawza-yi dār-os-salām - A banquet place which soothes the heart, like the castle of highest paradise,
A rose field whose surroundings are like the garden of the Abode of Peace.
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