سفیر
See also: سفير
Ottoman Turkish
Noun
سفیر • (sefir) (plural سفرا (süfera))
- envoy, representative, someone who represents others as a member of a legislative or governing body
- ambassador, a minister of the highest rank sent to a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country
- Synonym: ایلچی (ilçi)
Derived terms
- سقیر كبیر (sefir-i kebir, “ambassador”)
Descendants
- Turkish: sefir
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sefir”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4119
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “sefir”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1114
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سفیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 682
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Legatus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 930
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سفیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2630
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سفیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1063
Persian
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [sa.ˈfiːɾ]
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [sä.fíːɾ]
- (Kabuli) IPA(key): [sä.fíːɾ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [sä.fíɾ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [sæ.fíːɹ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [sä.fíɾ]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | safīr |
| Dari reading? | safīr |
| Iranian reading? | safir |
| Tajik reading? | safir |
Noun
| Dari | سفیر |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | сафир |
سفیر • (safir) (plural سفرا (sofarâ) or سفیران (safirân))
- ambassador
- سفیر کنونی بریتانیا در ایران
- safir-e konuni-ye beritâniyâ dar irân
- the current British ambassador to Iran
- (historical) envoy, messenger
- Synonyms: ايلچى (ilči), پیغامبر (peyğâmbar)
- c. 1080, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, “Qaṣīda 106”, in دیوان ناصرخسرو [Dīvān of Nāṣir-i Khusraw]:
- قران را به پیغمبرت ناورید
مگر جبرئیل آن مبارک سفیر- qur'ān rā ba payğambar-at n-āwarīd
magar jibra'īl ān mubārak safīr - No other than Gabriel, that blessed messenger,
Brought the Quran to your prophet.
- qur'ān rā ba payğambar-at n-āwarīd
- (rare) mediator
Related terms
- سفارت (sefârat)
Further reading
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “سفیر”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “سفیر”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian سفیر (safīr), from Arabic سَفِير (safīr).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /sə.fiːɾ/
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