ساده

From Persian ساده‎ (sâde)

ساده • (sade)

1. plain, simple

   Synonym: بسیط‎ (basit)

• Turkish: sade
• → Armenian: սատե (sate), սա̈դա̈ (sädä)

• Şemseddin Sâmi (1901), “ساده”, in Kamus-ı Türki (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 697

ساده • (sādá)

1. simple, uncomplicated, unpretentious, artless, primitive
2. simple-minded, credulous, naïve
3. short-witted, mentally limited
4. pure, without contaminants
5. beardless, clean-shaven
6. humble, of modest means
7. banal, trite, commonplace, petty, vulgar

• Pashtoon, Zeeya A. (2009), “ساده”, in Pashto–English Dictionary, Hyattsville: Dunwoody Press
• “ساده”, in Pashto Dictionary (in English), Peshawar, Pakistan: Pukhtoogle, 2020.

From Middle Persian *sādag, whence also Arabic سَاذَج‎ (sāḏaj). Compare Bactrian σαδγο (sadgo, “plain, even”) and Old Armenian սատակ (satak), a Middle Iranian loanword.

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /sɑːˈda/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /sɒːˈda/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /sɒːˈde/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /sɔːˈda/

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ساده • (sâde), comparative ساده‌تَر‎ (sâde-tar), superlative ساده‌تَرین‎ (sâde-tarin)

1. simple
   • c. 1260, Rumi, The Masnavi:

     ‏حمله بر خود می‌کنی ای ساده مرد، همچو آن شیری که بر خود حمله کرد.‎‎

     hamle bar xod mi-koni ey sâde mard, hamčo ân šir-i ke bar xod hamle kard.

     You are attacking yourself, o simple man, like that lion who attacked himself.

2. easy

   Synonym: آسان‎ (âsân)

3. plain, ordinary

• سادگی‎ (sâdegi)

• → Azerbaijani: sadə
• → Bengali: সাদা (sada)
• → Gujarati: સાદું (sādũ)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: सादा (sādā)

  Urdu: سادہ‎ (sādā)

• → Marathi: साधे (sādhe)
• → Ottoman Turkish: ساده‎
  • Turkish: sade (sade)
  • → Romanian: sadea
• → Punjabi:

  Shahmukhi: سادہ‎ (sādh)

  Gurmukhi: ਸਾਦਾ (sādā)

• → South Levantine Arabic: سادة‎ (sāda)

ساده • (sāda)

1. Alternative spelling of سادة‎