غریق

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Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic غَرِيق (ḡarīq).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading^?	ğarīq
Dari reading^?	ğarīq
Iranian reading^?	ğariğ
Tajik reading^?	ġariq

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.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)
(figurative) overwhelmed (by something)

Further reading

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

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