معرض

Noun of place from the verb عَرَضَ (ʕaraḍa).

• IPA^(key): /maʕ.ridˤ/

مَعْرِض • (maʕriḍ) m (plural مَعَارِض (maʕāriḍ))

1. place where something appears or is shown
2. showroom, stage
3. exhibition, exposition
4. (commerce) fair
5. event, occurrence
6. opportunity
7. cause, motive
8. slave market
9. pasturage for cattle
10. gallery

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “معرض”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “معرض”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “معرض”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Borrowed from Arabic مَعْرِض (maʕriḍ).

معرض • (ma'raz)

1. place of exposure; being exposed

   در معرض خطر ― dar ma'raz-e xatar ― exposed to danger

   در معرض خورشید ― dar ma'raz-e xoršid ― exposed to sunlight

2. (obsolete) slave market
   • 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 146:

     غلام زر خریدم لیک کو از خواجه آن قیمت
     که این بیقدر را در معرض به فروختن گیرد

     ğulām-i zar xarīdam lēk kū az xwāja ān qīmat
     ki īn bēqadr rā dar ma'raz ba furōxtan gīrad

     I bought a slave of gold, but where is the price for him from the master
     So that I may set myself to selling this worthless one in the market?

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “معرض”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “معرض”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press