Persian edit

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? dam zaḏan
Dari reading? dam zadan
Iranian reading? dam zadan
Tajik reading? dam zadan

Verb edit

دم زدن (dam zadan)

  1. to breathe
    Synonym: نفس کشیدن (nafas kešidan)
    • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 152”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎[1]:
      در ازل پرتوِ حسنت ز تجلی دم زد
      عشق پیدا شد و آتش به همه عالم زد
      dar azal partaw-i husn-at zi tajalli dam zad
      išq paydā šud u ātiš ba hama ālam zad
      In pre-eternity, your beauty's ray let out a breath from epiphany;
      Love emerged and set fire to the entire world.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  2. to talk
    Synonyms: حرف زدن (harf zadan), صحبت کردن (sohbat kardan)
  3. to claim; to pretend
    Synonym: ادعا کردن (edde'â kardan)

Conjugation edit