آرایه

Persian

Etymology

From آرا (ārā / ârâ, to arrange, array; to decorate, adorn, verbal root) +‎ ـه (-a / -e, noun-deriving suffix). Sense 3 is a phono-semantic matching of English array.

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? ārāya
Dari reading? ārāya
Iranian reading? ârâye
Tajik reading? oroya

Noun

آرایه • (ārāya / ârâye) (Tajik spelling ороя)

  1. decor
  2. (biology) taxon (a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit)
  3. (computing, information technology) array (a data structure designed to hold multiple elements of the same type)
  4. (music) embellishment, ornament (a musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to decorate that line)

Derived terms

  • آرایه‌شناختی (ārāya-šināxtī / ârâye-šenâxti, taxonomic)
  • آرایه‌شناس (ārāya-šinās / ârâye-šenâs, taxonomist)
  • آرایه‌شناسی (ārāya-šināsī / ârâye-šenâsi, taxonomy)
  • آرایه‌کار (ārāya-kār / ârâye-kâr, swing gang member)
  • آرایه‌گر (ārāya-gar / ârâye-gar, decorator)
  • آرایه‌گری (ārāya-garī / ârâye-gari, decoration)