سقر

• IPA^(key): /sa.qar/

سَقَر • (saqar) f

1. Hell

   Synonyms: سَعِير (saʕīr), لَظَى (laẓā), النَّار (an-nār), جَهَنَّم (jahannam), جَحِيم (jaḥīm), حُطَمَة (ḥuṭama), هَاوِيَة (hāwiya)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 54:48:

     يَوْمَ يُسْحَبُونَ فِي ٱلنَّارِ عَلَىٰ وُجُوهِهِمْ ذُوقُوا مَسَّ سَقَرَ

     yawma yusḥabūna fī n-nāri ʕalā wujūhihim ḏūqū massa saqara

     The Day they are dragged into the Fire on their faces [it will be said], "Taste the touch of Saqar."

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 74:26-30:

     سَأُصْلِيهِ سَقَرَ وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا سَقَرُ لَا تُبْقِي وَلَا تَذَرُ لَوَّاحَةٌ لِلْبَشَرِ عَلَيْهَا تِسْعَةَ عَشَرَ

     saʔuṣlīhi saqara wamā ʔadrāka mā saqaru lā tubqī walā taḏaru lawwāḥatun lilbašari ʕalayhā tisʕata ʕašara

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   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 74:38-42:

     كُلُّ نَفْسٍ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ رَهِينَةٌ إِلَّا أَصْحَابَ ٱلْيَمِينِ فِي جَنَّاتٍ يَتَسَاءَلُونَ عَنِ ٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ مَا سَلَكَكُمْ فِي سَقَرَ

     kullu nafsin bimā kasabat rahīnatun ʔillā ʔaṣḥāba l-yamīni fī jannātin yatasāʔalūna ʕani l-mujrimīna mā salakakum fī saqara

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• → Azerbaijani: səqər
• → Classical Persian: سَقَر (saqar)

Borrowed from Arabic سَقَرُ (saqaru).

سقر • (saqar)

1. (archaic) Hell
   • c. 1180, Anwarī, “Qaṣīda 72”, in دیوان انوری [Dīvān of Anvarī]‎^[1]:

     چه وقت رفتن و هنگام کردن سفرست
     سفر مکن که شود بر دلم جهان چو سقر

     čū waqt-i raftan u hangām-i kardan safar-ast
     safar ma-kun ki šawad bar dil-am jahān čū saqar

     When it is the time of departure and the season of traveling,
     Do not travel, for the world shall become like hell to my heart [if you leave].

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

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