نخ

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نخ • (nax) (plural نخ‌ها)

1. thread, string

   یک رشته نخ ― yek rešte-ye nax ― single thread of string

   سر نخ ― sar-e nax ― tip of the string

   نخ رنگی ― nax-e rangi ― colored thread

   نخ ابریشم ― nax-e abrišam ― silk thread

   • 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 136:

     بی سر زلف تو شد رشته جانم نخ نخ
     که رود از مژه‌ها اشک روانم نخ نخ

     bē sar-i zulf-i tō šud rišta-yi jānam nax nax
     ki rawad az muža-hā ašk-i rawānam nax nax

     Without your locks of hair, the string of my life [is falling apart] in threads,
     For my tears are flowing out of my eyelashes in streams.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

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

From Persian نخ (nax).

نخ (nax)

1. mark, signal
2. target, goal