سواد

• IPA^(key): /sa.waːd/

سَوَاد • (sawād) m (plural أَسْوِدَة‎ (ʔaswida) or أَسَاوِد‎ (ʔasāwid))

1. (uncountable) blackness, black
2. (uncountable or countable) an indistinct or unrecognizable figure; a shape; a silhouette; the shadow of a thing or an animal

   ‏رَأَيْتُ سَوَادًا مِنْ بَعِيدٍ‎ ― raʔaytu sawādan min baʕīdin ― I saw a shape in the distance.

3. (uncountable) multitude (of people)

   ‏سَوَادُ النَّاس‎ ― sawādu n-nās ― the majority of people

4. (countable, rare) the body of a human or an animal

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ar:body

5. (uncountable, dated) the backwoods; the countryside

   Synonyms: رِيف‎ (rīf, “the countryside”), كَفْر‎ (kafr, “a village”)

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• Maltese: swied
• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

سَوَاد • (sawād) f

1. (archaic, historical) Sawad, a fertile region in southern Iraq

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

سواد • (savâd) (plural سوادها‎ (savâd-hâ))

1. (archaic, literature) blackness (of hair, eyes, ink, etc.)
   • Saadi Shirazi

     ‏لبان لعل چون خون کبوتر -- سواد زلف چون پر پرستو‎

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2. (archaic, literature) darkness (of night, etc.)
3. (archaic, literature) innermost part (of heart)
4. (archaic) draft, an early version of a written document
   • Tarikh-i Bayhaqi

     ‏استادم گفته سوادی کرده ام امروز بیاض کنند... گفت [ امیر ] نیک آمد.‎‎

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5. (archaic) manuscript (hand-written document)
   • Khaqani

     ‏منم که گاه کتابت سواد شعر مرا فلک سزد که شود دفتر و ملک ورّاق .‎‎

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6. (archaic) copy (the result of copying)
7. (archaic, historical) Sawad, the fertile territory in southern Mesopotamia
8. (archaic) countryside (rural area) (used both in singular and plural forms)
   • Hudud al-'Alam

     ‏و اندر وی [ اندر خوزستان ] رودهای عظیم و آبهای روان است و سوادهای خرم‎

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9. (archaic, architecture) decorative facade in Sasanian architecture, such as that of Arch of Ctesiphon
   • مرآت البلدان ناصری

     ‏بالای این درگاه چهار طبقه پنجره است که از برای زینت جلو عمارت بنا شده و به اصطلاح بناهای این عصر آنها را سواد می نامند‎

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10. literacy

    ‏در تعریف سنتی سواد، توانایی خواندن و نوشتن است و یا توانایی به‌کاربردن زبان برای خواندن‎

    In the traditional sense, literacy is either the ability to read and write or one's own ability to read

11. being knowledgeable and competent

• → Azerbaijani: savad
• → Kazakh: сауат (sauat)
• → Middle Armenian: սաւատ (sawat)
• → Kyrgyz: сабат (sabat)
• → Tatar: сәвәт (säwät), сәвад (säwad)
• → Uzbek: савод (savod)

• باسوادی‎ (bâ-savâdi, “literate, educated”)

سواد • (sovâd)

1. an animal disease

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “سواد”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• Mo'in, Mohammad (1972), “سواد”, in Moeen Encyclopedic Dictionary [فرهنگ معین] (in Persian), Tehran: Amirkabir