Persian word senses marked with topical category "Literature"

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Parent categories: Culture, Entertainment, Writing, Society, Human behaviour, Language, Human, Communication
Subcategories: Books, Literary genres, Narratology, Periodicals, Poetry, Shahnameh

Total 104 word senses

• آرش (Proper name) a male given name, Arash
• آهنگ (Noun) meter, wazn
• احشوروش (Proper name) Ahasuerus
• ادب (Noun) literature, letters. polite learning
• ادبیات (Noun) literature
• استقبال (Noun) response poem (poem with same meter and rhyme as another, intended as a reply to it)
• اسفندیار (Proper name) a male given name, Esfandiyar, Esfandyar, or Esfandiar.
• اصطلاح ادبی (Noun) literary term
• افراسیاب (Proper name) a male given name, Afrasiyab or Afrasiab, from Middle Persian
• ایرج (Proper name) a male given name, Iraj
• بهاریه (Noun) bahariyye
• بهمن (Proper name) a male given name, Bahman
• بیت (Noun) couplet, distich
• بیژن (Proper name) a male given name, Bijan, Bizhhan, Bejan, or Bezhan, from Parthian
• ترانه (Noun) rubai
• ترکیب‌بند (Noun) A form of classical Persian poetry, composed of multiple stanzas which each have their own rhyme, with a different rhyming couplet between each stanza. When the same couplet is repeated like a refrain between every stanza instead of there being a different couplet between each stanza, it is called a ترجیعبند (tarji'-band) instead.
• تهمینه (Proper name) a female given name, Tahmina, Tamina, or Tahmineh
• تهمینه (Proper name) Tahmina, a character in the Shahnameh
• جمشید (Proper name) a male given name, Jamshid or Jamsheed, from Middle Persian
• حماسه (Noun) epic poem
• حماسه‌سرا (Noun) epic poet
• حماسی (Adjective) epic
• خراسانی (Adjective) Khorasani style or tradition
• خفیف (Adjective) Relating to a certain type of poetic meter, usually found in masnavis.
• دارا (Proper name) a male given name from Middle Persian
• دستان (Noun) Alternative form of داستان (dâstân, “story, tale”).
• دستان (Noun) song, melody, tune
• دستان (Proper name) Alternative name of the hero زال (zâl).
• دیوان (Noun) divan (collection of poems)
• دیوان (Noun) divan (council)
• دیوان (Noun) bureau
• دیوان (Noun) a muster roll, a register of soldiers
• راوی (Noun) narrator (of a novel, etc.)
• رباعی (Noun) rubai
• ردیف (Noun) radif
• رستم (Proper name) a male given name, Rostam or Rustam, from Middle Persian
• رودابه (Proper name) Rudaba
• رودابه (Proper name) a female given name, Rudabeh, Roodabeh, or Roudabeh
• روزی از روزها (Phrase) a day among the days
• روزی روزگاری (Phrase) once upon a time
• زال (Proper name) a male given name, Zal
• زلیخا (Proper name) The name popularly given to Potiphar's wife, a Biblical and Quranic figure who falls in love with the enslaved Joseph and attempts to seduce him; a common character in Persian poetry.
• سام (Proper name) a male given name, Sam or Saam
• سبک خراسانی (Noun) the "Khorasani style" of Persian poetry: the earliest style of New Persian verse, associated with poets from Khorasan and Transoxiana of the ninth to the twelfth centuries (such as Rudaki or Ferdowsi) and characterized by a rarity of Arabic loanwords
• سبک عراقی (Noun) the "Iraqi style" of Persian poetry: the second style of New Persian verse from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, characterized by greater use of specialized vocabulary and mystical themes and exemplified by poets from western Iran such as Sa'adi and Hafez
• سبک هندی (Noun) the "Indian style" of Persian poetry: the third style of New Persian verse from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, characterized by extravagant use of language and often associated with poets working under the patronage of the Mughals and other South Asian rulers; in modern Iran, it is often criticized for purple prose
• سروش (Proper name) A messenger angel who brings good news from God, an Islamization of the Zoroastrian figure; often considered a Persian name or title of the archangel Gabriel.
• سلیمان (Proper name) a male given name, Soleyman, Soleiman, Solayman, or Sulayman, equivalent to English Solomon
• سهراب (Proper name) a male given name, Sohrab or Suhrab
• سهل ممتنع (Noun) Something that looks simple or easy, but difficult to imitate.; A poem, verse, or literary work with inimitable simplicity, something that uses easy language, but is difficult to imitate; sahl-e-momtane', sahl-i-mumtani', sahl-e-mumtani', sahl-u-mumtani'.
• سواد (Noun) blackness (of hair, eyes, ink, etc.)
• سواد (Noun) darkness (of night, etc.)
• سواد (Noun) innermost part (of heart)
• سوره (Noun) sura
• سیامک (Proper name) Siamak
• سیامک (Proper name) a male given name, Siamak or Siyamak
• سیاوش (Proper name) a male given name, Siyavash, Siavash, or Syavash
• سیلاس (Proper name) Silas
• شاعر (Noun) poet
• شاعرانه (Adjective) poetic, poetical
• شاعره (Noun) poetess
• شاهد (Noun) A human:; beauty; beautiful person; the beloved (so beautiful that their physical beauty illuminates or "testifies" to the beauty of God)
• شاهنامه (Proper name) Shahnameh (an epic poem written by Ferdowsi around 1000 CE, telling the mythical and historical past of ancient Persia from the beginning of the world until the Muslim invasion)
• شعر (Noun) poem
• شعر (Noun) poetry
• شکرشکن (Adjective) having a mellifluous voice, sweet-sounding (especially of the beloved or birds)
• شیرین (Proper name) Shirin (queen of Armenia and wife of Khosrow II, a character in the Shahnameh and in Khosrow and Shirin)
• شیرین (Proper name) a female given name, Shirin, from Middle Persian
• طنز (Noun) satire (genre)
• طهمورث (Proper name) Tahmooras/Tahmoorath, a mythical king mentioned in the Shahnameh.
• طهمورث (Proper name) a male given name, Tahmooras or Tahmoores
• غزل (Noun) ghazal (form of lyric love poetry)
• فرانک (Proper name) a female given name, Faranak
• فرنگیس (Proper name) Farangis (wife of Siyavush in the Shahnameh)
• فرنگیس (Proper name) a female given name from Middle Persian
• قارون (Proper name) Korah (biblical character)
• قاموس (Noun) dictionary
• قاموس (Noun) ocean
• قرآن (Proper name) Qur'an
• قصیده (Noun) qasida
• لغت (Noun) dictionary, lexicon
• مصراع (Noun) hemistich; half of a بیت (beyt, “line of verse”)
• معما (Noun) very short poem which conceals the name of a person, to be puzzled out through textual clues
• مقطع (Noun) the last line of a qasida or ghazal
• مناظره (Noun) poetic disputation (a genre of poetry)
• منوچهر (Proper name) a male given name, Manuchehr, Manouchehr, or Manoochehr
• منیژه (Proper name) a female given name, Manije, Manizhe, Manizha, Manija, Manijeh, Manizheh, Manizhah, or Manijah, from Parthian
• نثر (Noun) prose
• نریمان (Proper name) a male given name, Nariman, Nareeman, Narreeman, Narriman, or Neriman, from Avestan
• نقد ادبی (Noun) literary criticism
• هفت اورنگ (Proper name) the Big Dipper
• هفت اورنگ (Proper name) Haft Awrang, the seven masnavis of the fifteenth-century poet Jami
• هوشنگ (Proper name) Hushang
• هژیر (Proper name) a male given name, Hojir, Hozhir, Hajir, or Hazhir, from Parthian or the Iranian epic Shahnameh
• وزن (Noun) meter
• ژورنالیست (Noun) journalist
• کتابخانه (Noun) library
• کتایون (Proper name) Katayun (wife of Goshtasp)
• کی‌قباد (Proper name) Kai Kobad
• کی‌قباد (Proper name) a male given name, Keyghobad
• گشتاسپ (Proper name) Goshtasp
• گلستان (Proper name) Golestan (a province of Iran)
• گودرز (Proper name) a male given name, Goodarz, Goudarz, or Gudarz, from Middle Iranian
• یکی بود یکی نبود (Phrase) once upon a time (literally One was, one wasn't.)

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