کثیف

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Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic كَثِيف (kaṯīf).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? kasīf
Dari reading? kasīf
Iranian reading? kasif
Tajik reading? kasif

Adjective

Dari چتل
Iranian Persian کثیف
Tajik ифлос

کثیف • (kasif) (comparative کثیف‌تَر (kasif-tar), superlative کثیف‌تَرین (kasif-tarin))

  1. dirty, unclean
    Synonym: چرکین (čerkin)
    Antonym: تمیز (tamiz)
    • c. 1080, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, “Qaṣīda 191”, in دیوان ناصرخسرو [Dīvān of Nāṣir-i Khusraw]‎:
      تا نشناسی تو لطیف از کثیف
      مانده‌ای اندر قفس آهنین
      tā na-šināsī tu latīf az kasīf
      mānda'ī andar qafas-i āhanīn
      As long as you do not tell apart the elegant from the filthy,
      You will remain in the iron cage.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

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