صید

See also: صيد

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَيْد (ṣayd).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈsajd/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säjd̪]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [säjd̪]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [säjd̪̥]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sejd̪̥]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [säjd̪]

Readings
Classical reading^?	sayd
Dari reading^?	sayd
Iranian reading^?	seyd
Tajik reading^?	sayd

Noun

صید • (seyd)

hunt; hunting
Synonym: شکار (šekâr)
fishing
Synonym: ماهی‌گیری (mâhi-giri)
game, prey, animal hunted
Synonym: شکار (šekâr)
- c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 263:
  سوی ما دیدی و چین در ابروان انداختی
  قتل صید خویش کردی و کمان انداختی
  sō-yi mā dīdī u čīn dar abruwān andāxtī
  qatl-i sayd-i xwēš kardī u kamān andāxtī
  You looked in our direction, and your eyebrows frowned;
  You killed your prey and shot your bow.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

صید کردن (seyd kardan)

Further reading

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