قلزم

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اَلْقُلْزُم (al-qulzum), from Ancient Greek Κλύσμα (Klúsma). "Red Sea" > "ocean" (in general).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [qul.ˈzum]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qʊl.zʊ́m]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qʊl.zʊ́m]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [qʊl.zʊ́m]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qul.zúm]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qol.zóm]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [qul.zúm]

Readings
Classical reading?	qulzum
Dari reading?	qulzum
Iranian reading?	ğolzom
Tajik reading?	qulzum

Proper noun

قلزم • (qolzom)

1. (historical) Clysma (ancient town on the Gulf of Suez)
2. (archaic) the Red Sea; short for دریای قلزم (daryâ-ye qolzom) or بحر قلزم (bahr-e qolzom).

Noun

قلزم • (qolzom)

1. (figurative, poetic) great sea; ocean
   • 1932, Muhammad Iqbal, Javid Nama [Book of Eternity]‎^[1]:

     آنچه دیدم می نگنجد در بیان
     تن ز سهمش بیخبر گردد ز جان
     من چه دیدم قلزمی دیدم ز خون
     قلزمی ، طوفان برون ، طوفان درون

     ānči dīdam mē-na-gunjad dar bayān
     tan zi sahm-aš bē-xabar gardad zi jān
     man či dīdam qulzumē dīdam zi xūn
     qulzumē, tūfān birūn, tūfān darūn.

     What I saw cannot be held in speech;
     My body, out of fear, became unaware of the soul;
     What did I see? I saw an ocean out of blood;
     An ocean, a storm inside, a storm outside.

Descendants

• → Gujarati: કુલઝુમ (kuljhum)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: क़ुल्ज़ुम (qulzum)

  Urdu: قُلْزُم (qulzum)