رقعه

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رُقْعَة (ruqʕa).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? ruq'a
Dari reading? ruq'a
Iranian reading? roġ'e
Tajik reading? ruq'a

Noun

رقعه • (roq'e) (plural رقعه‌ها, or رقاع (reqâ'), or رقع (roqa'))

  1. patch (for mending cloth)
  2. sheet of paper; (by extension) letter
    • c. 1100, Masʿūd-i Saʿd-i Salmān, “Qaṣīda 167”, in دیوان مسعود سعد سلمان‎[1]:
      نیز منویس نامه‌های امید
      بیش مفرست رقعه‌های نیاز
      nēz maniwis nāma-hā-yi ummēd
      bēš mafirist ruq'a-hā-yi niyāz
      Do not write to me letters of hope either;
      Send no more pages of supplication.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
    • 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 131:
      گه به تقریب گدایی گه برسم دادخواه
      رقعه‌ها سویش بچندین مکر و فن خواهم نوشت
      gah ba taqrīb-i gadāyī gah ba rasm-i dādxwāh
      ruq'a-hā sōyaš ba čandīn makr u fan xwāham niwišt
      Sometimes approaching like a beggar, sometimes in the manner of a supplicant,
      I will write her pages [letters] with such artifice and skill.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

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