آشام

Persian

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? āšām
Dari reading? āšām
Iranian reading? âšâm
Tajik reading? ošom

Verb

Dari آشام
Iranian Persian
Tajik ошом

آشام • (âšâm)

  1. present stem of آشامیدن (âšâmidan)

Noun

Dari آشام
Iranian Persian
Tajik ошом

آشام • (âšâm) (literary)

  1. drink
    • 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 182:
      زهر هجران برغبت میخوردم دردا که نیست
      بهر من چون می حریف درد آشامی دگر
      zahr-i hijrān b-raġbat mēxwardam dardā ki nēst
      bahr-i man čūn may harīf-i dard āšāmē digar
      I willingly drink the poison of separation! Alas that there is no
      Other drink like wine to be a companion of grief for me!
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  2. victual, food

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