زیاد

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Persian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic زِيَادَة (ziyāda).

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Readings
Classical reading? ziyāḏ
Dari reading? ziyād
Iranian reading? ziyâd
Tajik reading? ziyod
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Adjective

زیاد • (ziyâd) (comparative زیادتَر (ziyâd-tar), superlative زیادتَرین (ziyâd-tarin))

  1. much; a lot
  2. many; several
  3. too; too much
    زیاد خوردم.
    ziyâd xordam.
    I ate too much.
Usage notes

The Persian comparative and superlative forms زیادتر (ziyâd-tar) and زیادترین (ziyâd-tarin) are somewhat colloquial.

Commonly used terms are the native بیشتر (bištar) and بیشترین (bištarin) in the Persian comparative and superlative forms.

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Etymology 2

From زیستن (zistan, “to live, to survive”).

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Verb

زیاد • (ziyâd) (optative, infinitive زیستن)

  1. (archaic) May (someone) live!; Long live (someone)!
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