نصوح

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Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَصُوح (naṣūḥ).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading^?	nasūh
Dari reading^?	nasūh
Iranian reading^?	nasuh
Tajik reading^?	nasuh

Adjective

نصوح • (nasuh)

sincere, truthful
- 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 135:
  زاهد مگو که توبه کن از عاشقی و می
  زین نوع توبه‌هاست مرا توبه نصوح
  zāhid magō ki tawba kun az āšiqī u may
  z-īn naw'-i tawba-hā-st ma-rā tawba-yi nasūh
  Ascetic, do not say, "Repent from love and wine!"
  From this sort of repentance is sincere repentance for me.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

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

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