غریق

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic غَرِيق (ḡarīq).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ɣa.ˈɾiːq/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɣä.ɾíːq]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ɣä.ɾíːq]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ɣä.ɾíq]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qæ.ɹíːɢ̥]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʁä.ɾíq]

Readings
Classical reading^?	ġarīq
Dari reading^?	ġarīq
Iranian reading^?	ġariġ
Tajik reading^?	ġariq

Adjective

غریق • (ġariq)

drowned
Synonym: (more common) غرق (ġarq)
- 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 199:
  گهی ز حال سلیمی بپرس کز گریه
  ببحر عشق چو گرداب گشته است غریق
  gahē zi hāl-i salīmī bipurs k-az girya
  ba-bahr-i išq čū girdāb gašta ast ġarīq
  From time to time, ask how Selim is, for out of weeping
  He has become drowned in the whirlpool-like sea of love.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)
(figurative) overwhelmed (by something)

Further reading

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