سرنگون

See also: سرنكون

Persian

Etymology

Compound of (sar, “head”) +‎ (negun, “inverted, reversed”)

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /saɾ.ni.ˈɡuːn/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säɾ.nɪ.ɡuːn]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [säɾ.nɪ.ɡuːn]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [säɾ.nu.ɡun]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sæɹ.ne.ɡuːn]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [säɾ.ni.ɡun]

Readings
Classical reading^?	sarnigūn
Dari reading^?	sarnigūn
Iranian reading^?	sarnegun
Tajik reading^?	sarnigun

Adjective


Iranian Persian	سرنگون
Dari	سرنگون
Tajik	сарнигун

سرنگون • (sarnegun)

head downward, upside down, inverted
overset, overthrown, destroyed
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 1029:
  از یک اندیشه که آید در درون
  صد جهان گردد به یک دم سر نگون
  az yak andēša ki āyad dar dirūn
  sad jahān gardad ba yak dam sar-nigūn
  By one thought that comes into the mind
  a hundred worlds are overturned in a single moment.

References

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