سیار

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سَيَّار (sayyār).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? sayyār
Dari reading? sayyār
Iranian reading? seyyâr
Tajik reading? sayyor

Adjective

سیار • (sayyâr)

  1. itinerant, wandering
    فروشنده سیار ― forušande-ye sayyâr ― itinerant salesman
    • c. 1100, Masʿūd-i Saʿd-i Salmān, “Qaṣīda 121”, in دیوان مسعود سعد سلمان‎[1]:
      به مجلس اندر رویش بلند خورشیدست
      به معرکه در تیرش ستاره سیار
      ba majlis andar rōy-aš buland xwaršēd ast
      ba ma'raka dar tīr-aš sitāra sayyār
      In the gathering, his face is the lofty sun;
      In the battlefield, his arrow is a wandering star.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  2. field-, traveling, mobile
    دادگاه سیار ― dâdgâh-e sayyâr ― mobile court
    بیمارستان سیار ― bimârestân-e sayyâr ― field hospital

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