لانه

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Persian

Etymology

Not found in Middle Persian; early attestations are from Rumi, mid-1200s.

Pronunciation

Dari لانه
Iranian Persian
Tajik лона

Readings
Classical reading? lāna
Dari reading? lāna
Iranian reading? lâne
Tajik reading? lona
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Noun

لانه گربهlâne-ye gorbebed for cats

لانه (lâne)

  1. home for animals:
    1. lair; den (for mammals)
      Synonym: کُنام (konâm)
    2. nest (for birds)
      Synonyms: آشیانه (âšiyâne), آشیان (âšiyân), (for birds of prey) آموت (âmut)
      • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume I, verse 3707—3708:
        آتشی افتاد در عهد عمر
        همچو چوب خشک می‌‌خورد او حجر
        در فتاد اندر بنا و خانه‌‌ها
        تا زد اندر پر مرغ و لانه‌‌ها
        ātašē uftād dar ahd-i umar
        hamčō čōb-i xušk mē-xwarad ō xajar
        dar fitād andar binā u xāna-hā
        tā zad andar parr-i morğ u lāna-hā
        A conflagration occurred in the time of ‘Umar:
        It was devouring stones as though they were dry wood.
        It fell upon buildings and houses,
        Until it darted at the wings and nests of birds.
        (Classical Persian transliteration)
    3. house, bed (for pets)
    4. (figurative) lair, den (usually of criminal activity)
      لانه جاسوسیlâne-ye jâsusiden of spies
      • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume IV, verse 818:
        این جهان شهوتی بتخانه‌ایست
        انبیا و کافران را لانه‌ایست
        īn jahān-i šahwatī butxāna'ē-st
        abniyā u kāfirān rā lāna'ē-st
        This world, associated with lust, is an idol-temple:
        It is a nest for the prophets and the infidels .
        (Classical Persian transliteration)

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