بیکران

Persian

Etymology

Compound of (“without”) +‎ (“boundary, shore”)

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /beː.ka.ˈɾaːn/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [beː.kʰä.ɾɑ́ːn]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [beː.kʰä.ɾɑ́ːn]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [beː.kʰä.ɾɔ́ːn]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [biː.kʰʲæ.ɹɒ́ːn]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [be.kʰä.ɾɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading^?	bēkarān
Dari reading^?	bēkarān
Iranian reading^?	bikarân
Tajik reading^?	bekaron

Adjective

بیکران • (bikarân)

boundless, immense
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3636:
  پاس دارد قلعه را از دشمنان
  قلعه نفروشد به مال بی‌‌کران‌‌
  pās darad qal'a rā az dušman-ān
  qal'a na-furōšad ba māl-i-bēkarān
  [The governor] guards the fortress from enemies
  and will not sell it for boundless riches

References

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