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Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic عَسَس (ʕasas).
Pronunciation
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asas
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asas
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asas
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asas
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Noun
عسس • (asas)
- (historical) night watch, nocturnal patrol, nocturnal police
c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 267”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ], archived from the original on 2023-12-09:عشرت شبگیر کن، می نوش کاندر راه عشق
شبروان را آشناییهاست با میر عسس- išrat-i šabgīr kun, may nōš k-andar rāh-i išq
šabrawān rā āšnāyī-hāst bā mīr-i asas - Be happy all night long and drink wine! For on the road of love,
The night watch commander is acquainted with those who walk during night.
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 97:گر ماه کند شب عسسی بر سر کویت
بنما رخ و شرمنده خود ساز عسس را- gar māh kunad šab asasī bar sar-i kōyat
binmā rux u šarmanda-yi xwad sāz asas rā - If the moon should make the night watch at the end of your alleyway,
Show your face to it and make that watchman ashamed of himself.
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “عسس”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim