افتاده

Persian

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔuf.taː.ˈda/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäf.t̪ʰɑː.d̪ǽ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔʊf.t̪ʰɑː.d̪ǽ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔuf.t̪ʰɔː.d̪ǽ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔof.t̪ʰɒː.d̪é]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäf.t̪ʰɔ.d̪ǽ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	uftāda
Dari reading^?	aftāda
Iranian reading^?	oftâde
Tajik reading^?	aftoda

Verb

افتاده • (oftâde)

past participle of (oftâdan)

Noun

افتاده • (oftâde) (plural افتادگان (oftâdegân), or افتاده‌ها)

humbled person, oppressed person
- 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 119:
  کی در حریم وصل ره چون منی بود
  افتاده‌های درد ترا خاک در بس است
  kay dar harīm-i wasl rah-i čūn manī buwad
  uftāda-hā-yi dard-i tu-rā xāk-i dar bas ast
  How shall there be a way for someone like me into the sanctum of meeting [you]?
  For those oppressed by love-pain for you, the dirt [before your] gate is enough.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

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