آفریده

Persian

Etymology

For the sense of "human" from the past participle "created", compare Arabic مَخْلُوق (“created; creature, especially human being”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.fa.ɾiː.ˈða]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.fä.ɾiː.d̪ǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.fä.ɾiː.d̪ǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.fä.ɾiː.d̪ǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔː.fä.ɾi.d̪ǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒː.fæ.ɹiː.d̪é]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɔ.fä.ɾi.d̪ǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	āfarīḏa
Dari reading?	āfarīda
Iranian reading?	âfaride
Tajik reading?	ofarida

Dari	آفریده
Iranian Persian
Tajik	офарида

Verb

آفریده • (âfaride)

1. past participle of آفریدن (âfaridan, “to create”)

Noun

آفریده • (âfaride) (plural آفریدگان (âfaridegân))

1. creature; (particularly) human creature, human
   • c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels]‎^[1]:

     ندر نواحی شام پانصد هزار ستون یا سر ستون و ته ستون بیش افتاده است که هیچ آفریده نداند که آن چه بوده‌است یا از کجا آورده‌اند.

     andar nawāhī-yi šām hazār sutūn bā sar-i sutūn u tah-i sutūn bēš uftāda ast ki hēč āfarīda na-dānist ki ān či būda ast yā az kujā āwarda-and.

     In the lands of Syria, more than a thousand pillars with capitals and plinths lie fallen, such that no human creature knows what they were or where they were brought from.