قرین

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَرِين (qarīn, “associated, combined”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [qa.ɾiːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qä.ɾiːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qä.ɾiːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [qä.ɾiːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qä.ɾin]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qæ.ɹiːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [qä.ɾin]

Readings
Classical reading?	qarīn
Dari reading?	qarīn
Iranian reading?	ğarin
Tajik reading?	qarin

Dari	قرین
Iranian Persian
Tajik	қарин

Adjective

قرین • (qarin) (comparative قرین‌تَر (qarin-tar), superlative قرین‌تَرین (qarin-tarin))

1. connected, joined, coupled
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 1092:

     چون ستاره با ستاره شد قرین
     لایق هر دو اثر زاید یقین‏

     čōn sitāra bā sitāra šud qarīn
     lāyiq har dū asar zāyad yaqīn

     When planet comes into conjunction with planet,
     the effect appropriate to them both is assuredly produced

2. allied, related
3. symetrical

Noun

قرین • (qarin) (plural اقران (aqrân))

1. equal, match, peer, fellow
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 1091:

     از لقای هر کسی چیزی خوری
     و ز قران هر قرین چیزی بری‏

     az liqa-yi har kas-ē čīz-ē xwarī
     u za qirān-i har qarīn čīz-ē barī

     You eat (receive) something from meeting with any one,
     and you carry away something from conjunction with any associate.

2. spouse
3. contemporary

References

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