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Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic غَرِيق (ḡarīq).
Pronunciation
Readings
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Classical reading?
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ğarīq
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Dari reading?
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ğarīq
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Iranian reading?
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ğariğ
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Tajik reading?
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ġariq
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Adjective
غریق • (ğariq)
- drowned
- Synonym: (more common) غرق (ğarq)
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 199:گهی ز حال سلیمی بپرس کز گریه
ببحر عشق چو گرداب گشته است غریق- gahē zi hāl-i salīmī bipurs k-az girya
ba-bahr-i išq čū girdāb gašta ast ğarīq - From time to time, ask how Selim is, for out of weeping
He has become drowned in the whirlpool-like sea of love.
- (figurative) overwhelmed (by something)
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “غریق”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim