عریان

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عُرْيَان (ʕuryān).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔuɾ.ˈjɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔʊɾ.jɑ́ːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔʊɾ.jɑ́ːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔʊɾ.jɑ́ːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔuɾ.jɔ́ːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔoɹ.jɒ́ːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔuɾ.jɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading?	uryān
Dari reading?	uryān
Iranian reading?	oryân
Tajik reading?	uryon

Adjective

عریان • (oryân)

1. naked, nude

   Synonyms: برهنه (berahne), لخت (loxt)

   • 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 71:

     همچو نی دم ز وفای تو زنم تا دم حشر
     استخوانهای مرا خاک چو عریان سازد

     hamčū nay dam zi wafā-yi tu zanam tā dam-i hašr
     ustuxwānhā-yi ma-rā xāk čū uryān sāzad

     Like the flute, I will breathe with constancy for you until the breath of Resurrection Day,
     And the earth makes [strips] my bones as if they were naked.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

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