ترنم

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَرَنُّم (tarannum).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ta.ɾan.ˈnum]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.ɾän.nʊ́m]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.ɾän.nʊ́m]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.ɾän.nʊ́m]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.ɾän.núm]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰæ.ɹæn.nóm]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.ɾän.núm]

Readings
Classical reading?	tarannum
Dari reading?	tarannum
Iranian reading?	tarannom
Tajik reading?	tarannum

Noun

ترنم • (tarannom)

1. melodious singing
   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 277:

     یک ترنم که شنید از لب آن سرو روان
     من دل سوخته را زمزمه برخاست ز جان

     yak tarannum ki šunīd az lab-i ān sarw-i rawān
     man-i dil sōxta rā zamzama barxāst zi jān

     When I heard a melody from the lips of that [beauty like a] walking cypress,
     A hum rose up from the soul of me whose heart is scorched [by love].

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

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