قامت

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Arabic

Verb

قَامَتْ • (qāmat) (form I) /qaː.mat/

third-person feminine singular past active of قَامَ (qāma)

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَامَة (qāma).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading^?	qāmat
Dari reading^?	qāmat
Iranian reading^?	ğâmat
Tajik reading^?	qomat

Noun

قامت • (qâmat)

stature, figure
- c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 99”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎:
  دو تا شد قامتم همچون کمانی
  ز غم پیوسته چون ابروی فرخ
  du tā šud qāmat-am hamčūn kamānē
  zi ğam-i paywasta čūn abrū-yi farrux
  My stature became crooked just like a bow,
  Or like your blessed eyebrows, from everlasting grief.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “قامت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

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