مشام

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic [Term?].

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ma.ˈʃɑːm]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mä.ʃɑ́ːm]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mä.ʃɑ́ːm]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mä.ʃɔ́ːm]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæ.ʃɒ́ːm]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mä.ʃɔ́m]

Readings
Classical reading^?	mašām
Dari reading^?	mašām
Iranian reading^?	mašâm
Tajik reading^?	mašom

Noun

مشام • (mašâm)

sense of smell
nose
Synonyms: دماغ (damâğ), بینی (bini)
- c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 114”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎:
  ز خاک کوی تو هر گه که دم زند حافظ
  نسیم گلشن جان در مشام ما افتد
  zi xāk-i kōy-i tu har gah ki dam zanad hāfiz
  nasīm-i gulšan-i jān dar mašām-i mā uftad
  Every time Ḥāfiẓ breathes in the earth of your street,
  The fragrance of the soul's rose garden falls into my nose.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “مشام”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “مشام”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

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