روضه

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَوْضَة (“garden”). The religious sense is generalized from the title of the book (rowzat-osh-shohadâ, “Garden of the Martyrs”), an extremely popular work describing the tragedy at Karbala written by Husayn Kâshefi (lived 1436—1504).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɾaw.ˈza]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [räw.zǽ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [räw.zǽ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [räw.zǽ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɹow.zé]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɾäw.zǽ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	rawza
Dari reading^?	rawza
Iranian reading^?	rowze
Tajik reading^?	ravza

Noun

روضه • (rowze)

(Shia Islam) eulogy of the Battle of Karbala
― rowze-ye šab-e âšurâ ― eulogy of the night of Ashura
(archaic or Islam) garden
― rowze-ye behešt ― garden of paradise
- c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 309”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[1]:
  بزم‌گاهی دل‌نشان، چون قصر فردوس برین
  گلشنی پیرامنش چون روضهٔ دارالسلام
  bazm-gāhē dil-nišān, čūn qasr-i firdaws-e barīn
  gulšanē pērāmun-aš čūn rawza-yi dār-os-salām
  A banquet place which soothes the heart, like the castle of highest paradise,
  A rose field whose surroundings are like the garden of the Abode of Peace.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

روضه رضوان (rowze-ye rezvân, “Paradise”, literally “Garden of Riḍwān”)