صیقل

See also: صيقل

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَيْقَل (ṣayqal).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [saj.qal]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säj.qäl]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [säj.qäl]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [säj.qäl̥]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sejɢæl̥]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [säj.qäl]

Readings
Classical reading^?	sayqal
Dari reading^?	sayqal
Iranian reading^?	seyğal
Tajik reading^?	sayqal

Noun


Iranian Persian	صيقل
Dari	صيقل
Tajik	сайқал

صیقل • (sayqal) (plural صیاقل (sayâqel))

polish, lustre
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3492:
  اهل صیقل رسته‌‌اند از بوی و رنگ
  هر دمی بینند خوبی بی‌‌درنگ
  ahl-i sayqal rasta-and az bōy u rang
  har damī bīnand xūbī bē-dirang
  They that burnish (their hearts) have escaped from scent and colour:
  they behold Beauty at every moment without tarrying.
polisher, burnisher

References

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

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