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Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic عَلِيم (ʕalīm).
Pronunciation
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alīm
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| Dari reading?
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alīm
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| Iranian reading?
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alim
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alim
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Adjective
علیم • (alim)
- (literary) knowledgeable, knowing, learned
- (of God) knowing, all-knowing
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 210:دی از اندوه تو نی مرده بدم نی زنده
حق علیمست که امروز ازان هم بترم- dī az andūh-i tō nē murda budam nē zinda
haq alīm ast ki imrōz az ān ham bataram - Yesterday, I grieved so much for you that I was neither living nor dead;
God knows that today, I am even worse off than that.
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “علیم”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim