علیم

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَلِيم (ʕalīm).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔa.ˈliːm/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.líːm]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔä.líːm]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔä.lím]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæ.líːm]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.lím]

Readings
Classical reading^?	alīm
Dari reading^?	alīm
Iranian reading^?	alim
Tajik reading^?	alim

Adjective

علیم • (alīm / alim) (Tajik spelling алим)

(literary) knowledgeable, knowing, learned
(of God) knowing, all-knowing
- 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 210:
  دی از اندوه تو نی مرده بدم نی زنده
  حق علیمست که امروز ازان هم بترم
  dī az andūh-i tō nē murda budam nē zinda
  haq alīm ast ki imrōz az ān ham bataram
  Yesterday, I grieved so much for you that I was neither living nor dead;
  God knows that today, I am even worse off than that.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “علیم”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “علیم”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press