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Meaning of قلزم | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
qul.ˈzum

Definitions

  1. Clysma (ancient town on the Gulf of Suez)
    historical
  2. great sea; ocean
    figuratively, poetic
  3. the Red Sea; ellipsis of دریای قلزم (daryâ-ye qolzom) or بحر قلزم (bahr-e qolzom)
    archaic

Examples

“آنچه دیدم می نگنجد در بیان تن ز سهمش بیخبر گردد ز جان من چه دیدم قلزمی دیدم ز خون قلزمی ، طوفان برون ، طوفان درون”

What I saw cannot be held in speech; My body, out of fear, became unaware of the soul; What did I see? I saw an ocean out of blood; An ocean, a storm inside, a storm outside.

CEFR level

B1
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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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