زانو زدن

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Persian

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? zānū zaḏan
Dari reading? zānū zadan
Iranian reading? zânu zadan
Tajik reading? zonu zadan

Verb

زانو زدن (zânu zadan)

  1. (intransitive) to kneel, to kneel down
    • 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 108:
      تا سر بر آستان محبت نهاده‌ایم
      زانو زد سپهر برای سلام ما
      tā sar bar āstān-i muhabbat nihāda'ēm
      zānū zad sipihr barā-yi salām-i mā
      As long as I laid my head down on the threshold of love,
      The celestial spheres knelt down to greet me.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

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