زیبنده

Persian

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /zeː.ban.ˈda/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [zeː.bän̪.d̪ǽ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [zeː.bän̪.d̪ǽ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [zeː.bän̪.d̪ǽ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ziː.bæn̪.d̪é]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ze.bän̪.d̪ǽ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	zēbanda
Dari reading^?	zēbanda
Iranian reading^?	zibande
Tajik reading^?	zebanda

Verb

زیبنده • (zibande)

present participle of (zibidan)

Adjective

زیبنده • (zibande) (comparative زیبنده‌تَر, superlative زیبنده‌تَرین)

befitting, becoming (of), suiting
beautiful, elegant
- 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 161:
  ای من غلام آن خط و ابرو و چشم و زلف
  ناز و عتاب و خشم چه زیبنده می‌کند
  ay man ġulām-i ān xat u abrū u čašm u zulf
  nāz u itāb u xašm či zēbanda mē-kunad
  O, I am a slave to that mustache and eyebrows and eyes and locks of hair;
  How much flirting and reproach and anger make you beautiful!
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

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