فلات

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Persian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Arabic فَلَاة (falāh). In the modern sense, a phono-semantic matching of French plateau or another European language,^[1] compare English flat.

Pronunciation[edit]

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [fa.ˈlɑːt]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [fä.lɑ́ːt̪]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [fä.lɑ́ːt̪]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [fä.lɔ́ːt̪]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [fæ.lɒ́ːt̪]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [fä.lɔ́t̪]

Readings
Classical reading^?	falāt
Dari reading^?	falāt
Iranian reading^?	falât
Tajik reading^?	falot

Noun[edit]

فلات • (falât)

plateau
― falât-e irân ― Iranian Plateau
(archaic, original sense) waterless desert, wilderness

References[edit]

^ Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “فلات”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

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