شحنه

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شِحْنَة (šiḥna).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʃah.ˈna]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäɦ.nǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäɦ.nǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʃɑː.nǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʃɔː.nǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃæɦ.né]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäɦ.nǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	šahna
Dari reading?	šahna
Iranian reading?	šahne
Tajik reading?	šahna

Noun

شحنه • (šahne)

1. (historical) military governor of a town
   • 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 118:

     اگرچه خسته مجنون شحنه دشت بلا بودست
     نه همچون من بمهر ماه رویان مبتلا بودست

     agarči xasta majnūn šahna-yi dašt-i balā būdast
     na hamčūn man ba-mihr-i māh rōyān mubtalā būdast

     Although the wounded Majnun was the governor of the fields of calamity,
     Nobody has been as afflicted by the love of moon-faced beauties as I have.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

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