آبخور

Persian

Etymology

آب (âb, “water”) +‎ خور (xor, present stem of خوردن (xordan, “to eat, to consume”)), from Middle Persian [Term?] (/⁠ābxwar⁠/).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːβ.ˈxʷaɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːb.xʊ́ɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːb.xʊ́ɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːb.xʊ́ɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔːb.ˈxuɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒːb.xóɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɔb.χúɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	āḇxwar
Dari reading?	ābxur
Iranian reading?	âbxor
Tajik reading?	obxur

Noun

آبخور • (âbxor)

1. irrigable land
2. watering place; spring of water

   Synonym: چشمه (češme)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 270:

     هر دو نی خوردند از یک آبخور
     این یکی خالی و آن پر از شکر

     har du nay xwardand az yak ābxwar
     īn yakē xālī u ān pur az šikar

     Both reeds [canes] drank from the same water-source; this one is empty and that one full of sugar.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

3. (shipbuilding) draft; draught (maximum depth of a ship in water)
4. (figurative) destiny; fate

   Synonyms: سرنوشت (sarnevešt), تقدیر (taqdir), قسمت (qesmat), بخت (baxt)