صیقل

See also: صيقل

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَيْقَل (ṣayqal).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [saj.qal]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säj.qäl]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säj.qäl]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [säj.qäl]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [säj.qäl̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sejɢæl̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [säj.qäl]

Readings
Classical reading?	sayqal
Dari reading?	sayqal
Iranian reading?	seyğal
Tajik reading?	sayqal

Noun

Dari	صيقل
Iranian Persian
Tajik	сайқал

صیقل • (sayqal) (plural صیاقل (sayâqel))

1. polish, lustre
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3492:

     اهل صیقل رسته‌‌اند از بوی و رنگ
     هر دمی بینند خوبی بی‌‌درنگ

     ahl-i sayqal rasta-and az bōy u rang
     har damī bīnand xūbī bē-dirang

     They that burnish (their hearts) have escaped from scent and colour:
     they behold Beauty at every moment without tarrying.

2. polisher, burnisher

References

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