پذیرا

Persian

Etymology

Active participial adjective of پذیرفتن (paziroftan, “to accept, embrace”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [pa.ðiː.ɾɑː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰä.ziː.ɾɑː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰä.ziː.ɾɑː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰä.ziː.ɾɑː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰä.zi.ɾɔː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰæ.ziː.ɹɒː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰä.zi.ɾɔ]

Readings
Classical reading?	paḏīrā
Dari reading?	pazīrā
Iranian reading?	pazirâ
Tajik reading?	paziro

Adjective

Dari	پذیرا
Iranian Persian
Tajik	пазира

پذیرا • (pazîrâ) (comparative پذیراتَر (pazîrâ-tar), superlative پذیراتَرین (pazîrâ-tarin))

1. accepting, receiving, receptive
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3498:

     تا نقوش هشت جنت تافته ست
     لوح دلشان را پذیرا یافته ست

     tâ nuqûš-i-hašt janat tâfta-st
     lûh-i-dil-šân râ pazîrâ yâfta-st

     Ever since the forms of the Eight Paradises have shone forth,
     they have found the tablets of their (the Súfís') hearts receptive.

References

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