Persian

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Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? nām burdan
Dari reading? nām burdan
Iranian reading? nâm bordan
Tajik reading? nom burdan

Verb

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نام بردن (nâm bordan)

  1. (transitive, formal) to name; to mention or say (someone or something's) name
    • 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 98:
      می‌برد نام تو و آتش بجانم می‌زند
      خواهم از غیرت بسوزانم زبان خویش را
      mē-barad nām-i tō u ātaš ba-jānam mē-zanad
      xwāham az ğayrat bisōzānam zabān-i xwēš rā
      It speaks your name and sets my soul on fire;
      I want to burn my own tongue away from envy!
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

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