عریان

See also: عريان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عُرْيَان (ʕuryān, “naked, nude”).

Adjective

عریان • (ʼuryan)

  1. naked, nude, bare, not covered by clothing, not wearing any apparel
    Synonyms: چپلاق (çıplak), طال (dal), یالین (yalın)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: üryan

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عُرْيَان (ʕuryān).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? uryān
Dari reading? uryān
Iranian reading? oryân
Tajik reading? uryon

Adjective

عریان • (oryân)

  1. naked, nude
    Synonyms: برهنه (berahne), لخت (loxt)
    • 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 71:
      همچو نی دم ز وفای تو زنم تا دم حشر
      استخوانهای مرا خاک چو عریان سازد
      hamčū nay dam zi wafā-yi tu zanam tā dam-i hašr
      ustuxwānhā-yi ma-rā xāk čū uryān sāzad
      Like the flute, I will breathe with constancy for you until the breath of Resurrection Day,
      And the earth makes [strips] my bones as if they were naked.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
    • c. 1599, Bahāʾ al‐Dīn ʿĀmilī, “Section 5, Part 1”, in کشکول (kaškul)‎[5]:
      ادهم مضحکه، برده‌ای سیاه بود. والی فرمان داده بود که مردم برای نماز استسقا بیرون روند و همگی سیاه به تن داشته باشند. ادهم، عریان به مصلی رفت.
      adham-e mazhake, barde'i siyâh bud. vâli farmân dâde bud ke mardom barây-e namâz-e estesqâ birun ravand o hamegi siyâh be tan dâšte bâšand. adham, oryân be mosallâ raft.
      Adham 'the laughing stock' was a black slave. [One day,] the governor had ordered the people to go out for the prayer to ask for rain and wear black. Adham went naked to the prayer hall.

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