تاسه‌‌

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [tɑː.ˈsa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɑː.sǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɑː.sǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɑː.sǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɔː.sǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɒː.sé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɔ.sǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	tāsa
Dari reading?	tāsa
Iranian reading?	tâse
Tajik reading?	tosa

Noun

تاسه‌‌ • (tâse)

1. (archaic) anxiety; disquietude
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 180:

     وعده‌‌ها باشد حقیقی دل پذیر
     وعده‌‌ها باشد مجازی تاسه‌‌گیر

     wa'da-hă bāšad haqīqī dil-pazīr
     wa'da-hā bāšad majāzī tāsa-gīr

     There are true promises, grateful to the heart; there are false promises, fraught with disquietude.