خواری

Persian

Etymology

Compound of خوار (xwār, “despicable”) +‎ ی (ī, suffix forming nouns from adjectives)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [xʷɑː.ɾiː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xɑː.ɾiː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xɑː.ɾiː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xɑː.ɾiː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xɔː.ɾi]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xɒː.ɹiː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χɔ.ɾi]

Readings
Classical reading?	xwārī
Dari reading?	xārī
Iranian reading?	xâri
Tajik reading?	xori

Noun

Dari	خواری
Iranian Persian
Tajik	хори

خواری • (xvâri)

1. abjectness, contempt, baseness, abasement
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 1104:

     از پی طاق و طرم خواری کشند
     بر امید عز در خواری خوشند

     az pay-i tāq u turum xwārī kašand
     bar umēd-i 'izz dar xwārī xwašand

     For the sake of (earthly) pomp and grandeur they endure abasement;
     in the hope of glory they are happy in (their) abasement.

References

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “خواری”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim