ژرف

Etymology

Borrowed from Parthian [script needed] (jfr /⁠žafr⁠/, “deep”), from Proto-Iranian [Term?], from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gabʰrás, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷh₂bʰ-rós, from *gʷeh₂bʰ- (“to be deep; to submerge”).

Cognate with Middle Persian [script needed] (zwpl /⁠zofr⁠/, “deep”), Avestan 𐬘𐬀𐬟𐬭𐬀 (jafra, “deep”), Sanskrit गभीर (gabhīra, “deep”), Ancient Greek βάπτω (báptō, “to submerge”). Possibly a doublet of جَفْر (jafr, “occult knowledge”), an Arabic loanword perhaps originally borrowed from Iranian.

Pronunciation

Adjective

ژَرف • (žarf) (comparative ژَرف‌تَر (žarf-tar), superlative ژَرف‌تَرین (žarf-tarin))

1. deep

   Synonyms: عمیق (amiq), (Dari) چقر (čuqur)

   مغاک میلواکی نام ژرف‌ترین نقطه اقیانوس اطلس است.

   mağâk-e milvâki nâm-e žarf-tarin noqte-ye oqyânus-e atlas ast.

   The Milwaukee Deep is the name of the deepest point of the Atlantic Ocean.

   • c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels]‎:

     میان جامع و این دشت ساهره وادیی ست عظیم ژرف، و در آن وادی، که همچون خندقست، بناهای بزرگست بر نسق پیشینیان.

     miyān-i jāmi' u īn dašt sāhira-yi wādīyē-st azīm žarf, wa dar ān wādī, ki hamčōn xandaq ast, binā-hā-yi buzurg ast bar nasaq-i pēšēnīyān.

     Between the congregational mosque and this plane, there is a flowing wadi, extremely deep, and in that wadi (which is like a ditch) are great buildings in the fashion of the ancients.