صدراعظم

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish صدر اعظم (sadr-ı azam).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈsad.ɾi ʔaʔ.ˈzam/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sǽd̪.ɾɪ ʔäʔ.zǽm]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sǽd̪ɾɪ ʔɑː.zǽm]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [sǽd̪ɾi ʔɔː.zǽm]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sǽd̪.ɹe ʔæʔ.zǽm]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [sǽd̪.ɾi ʔäʔ.zǽm]

Readings
Classical reading^?	sádr-i a'zám
Dari reading^?	sadr-i a'zam
Iranian reading^?	sadr-e a'zam
Tajik reading^?	sadr-i a'zam

Noun

صدراعظم • (sadr-e a'zam)

Chancellor
sadr-e a'zam-e konuni-ye almân
the current Chancellor of Germany
(historical, under the Ottomans and Qajars) Prime Minister, grand vizier

Further reading

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