خون خوردن

Persian

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Etymology

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Literally, to drink blood.

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? xūn xwardan
Dari reading? xūn xurdan
Iranian reading? xun xordan
Tajik reading? xun xurdan

Verb

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خون خوردن (xun xordan)

  1. (figurative, intransitive) to suffer, to anguish
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 115:
      این همه خون خوردم از هجرت بپرس آخر گهی
      کای سلیمی بی لبم چون بود دور ساغرت
      īn hama xūn xwardam az hajrat bipurs āxir gahē
      k-ay salīmī bē labam čūn būd dawr-i sāğarat
      I have suffered so much from being parted from you. At last, ask sometimes:
      "O Selim, how did your cups of wine circulate without my lips?"
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Conjugation

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