سرکوب

سر (sar, “head”) +‎ کوب (kub, present stem of کوفتن (kuftan, “to pound, to knock”)): "head-pounding".

سرکوب • (sarkub)

1. repression; abuse

   سرکوب سیاسی ― sarkub-e siyâsi ― political repression

2. (archaic) eminence, towering building
3. (obsolete) reproach, reproof, rebuke; stronger than سرزنش (sarzaneš, literally “head-tapping”).
   • early 1300s, Awhadī Marāğa'i, “Ghazal 258”, in دیوان اوحدی‎^[1]:

     از بس که کردم سرزنش دل را به یاد آوردنش
     بیچاره از سرکوب پر حیران و گیج و دنگ شد

     az bas ki kardam sarzaniš dil rā ba yād āwardan-aš
     bēčāra az sarkōb pur hayrān u gēj u dang šud

     So much did I blame my heart that, when it remembered,
     It could not help but become confused and dizzy and astonished from the rebuke.

     (Classical Persian romanization)