ارد

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭫𐭲𐭩 (ʾlty /⁠ard⁠/), from Old Persian 𐎠𐎼𐎫 (a-r-t /⁠r̥taʰ⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *Hr̥táh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hr̥tás. Cognate with Avestan 𐬀𐬴𐬀 (aṣ̌a, “truth”), Sanskrit ऋत (ṛtá, “fixed order, truth”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔaɾð], [ʔiɾð]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäɹd̪], [ʔɪɹd̪]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔäɹd̪], [ʔɪɹd̪]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔäɹd̪̥], [ʔiɹd̪̥]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæɹd̪̥], [ʔeɹd̪̥]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäɹd̪], [ʔiɹd̪]

Readings
Classical reading^?	ard, ird
Dari reading^?	ard, ird
Iranian reading^?	ard, erd
Tajik reading^?	ard, ird

Noun

ارد • (ard or erd)

(obsolete) twenty-fifth day of the month
- c. 1011, Abu'l-Qāsim Firdawsī, “The Reign of Shāpūr”, in شاهنامه [Book of Kings]‎:
  یکی شارستان نام شاپور گرد
  برآورد و پرداخت در روز ارد
  yakē šāristān nām šāpūr gird
  bar-āward u pardāxt dar rōz-i ird
  A city, by the name of Shāpūr-gird,
  He raised up and erected, on the twenty-fifth day.
  (Classical Persian romanization)

Proper noun

ارد • (ard)

(Zoroastrianism) Ard, a goddess and divine assistant of Spenta Armaiti, thought to preside over the twenty-fifth day
- 1800s?, کی بهرام, در صفت دوازده امام و چهارده معصوم گویم‎, published 1942:
  نهم عزیز چو ارد ایزد و دهم اشتاد
  بهوش باش که گفتم اگر تو نادانی
  nohom aziz čo ard izad o dahom aštâd
  be huš bâš ke goftam agar to nâdân-i
  Since the ninth dear one is the divine Ard and the tenth is Ashtad,
  Be aware that I have told you, if you did not know!

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