خرام

Persian

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /xi.ˈɾaːm/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xɪ.ɾɑ́ːm]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xɪ.ɾɑ́ːm]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xi.ɾɔ́ːm]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xe.ɹɒ́ːm]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χi.ɾɔ́m]

Readings
Classical reading^?	xirām
Dari reading^?	xirām
Iranian reading^?	xerâm
Tajik reading^?	xirom

Verb

خرام • (xerâm)

present stem of (xerâmidan, “to strut, to walk elegantly”)

Noun

خرام • (xerâm)

elegant gait
- 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 133:
  ای گل بجمال چمن آرای تو محتاج
  طرفی بخرام قد رعنای تو محتاج
  ay gul ba-jamāl-i čaman ārāī tō muhtāj
  tarfī ba-xirām-i qad-i ra'nā-yi tō muhtāj
  O rose, [I] need your meadow-adorning beauty;
  [I] need the direction of the elegant gait of your fair stature.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)
beautiful person with an elegant gait

Further reading

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