سیاح

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Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سَيَّاح (sayyāḥ).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? sayyāh
Dari reading? sayyāh
Iranian reading? seyyâh
Tajik reading? sayyoh

Noun

Dari سیاح
Iranian Persian
Tajik сайёҳ

سَیّاح (sayyâh) (plural سَیّاحان (sayyâhân))

  1. traveller
    Synonym: مسافر (mosâfer)
    • c. 1688, محمد ربیع بن ابراهیم [Moḥammad Rabiʾ b. Ebrāhim], “Introduction”, in سفینه سلیمانی [Safine-ye Solaymani]:
      سفینه سلیمانی که سیاحان محیط عبودیت را از تصادم بتلاطم انواع امواج بیکران سرگشتگی بساحل نجات تواند رسانید []
      safine-ye soleymâni ke sayyâhân-e mohit-e 'obudiyyat râ az tasâddom be talâtom-e anvâ'-e amvâj-e bikarân-e sargaštegi be sâhel-e nejât tavânad rasânid
      The ship of Sulaimān, which can deliver the travellers of the ocean of servitude from collision, through the dashing of ranks of unbounded waves of perplexity, to the coast of salvation
  2. tourist
    Synonym: گردشگر (gardešgar)