ریو

Persian

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈɾeːw/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [reːw]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [reːw]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [reːw]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɹiːv]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɾew]

Readings
Classical reading^?	rēw
Dari reading^?	rēw
Iranian reading^?	riv
Tajik reading^?	rev

Noun

ریو • (rēw / riv) (Tajik spelling рев)

fraud, deceit
- 1932, محمد اقبال [Muhammad Iqbāl], “The Martian Damsel who claimed to be a Prophetess”, in Arthur J. Arberry, transl., جاویدنامه [Jāvīdnāma, Book of Eternity]‎^[1]:
  گفت با ما آن حکیم نکتہ دان
  نیست این دوشیزہ از مریخیان
  سادہ و آزادہ و بی ریو و رنگ
  فرز مرز او را بدزدید از فرنگ
  guft bā mā ān hakīm-i nukta dān
  nēst īn dōšīza az mirrīxiyān
  sāda u āzāda u bē rēw u rang
  farz marz ō rā bi-duzdīd az farang
  That sage who knew all subtleties spoke to us:
  ‘This damsel is not of the Martians;
  simple and free of guile, without artifice,
  Farzmarz kidnapped her from the Franks
  (Indo-Persian script)

References

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “ریو”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim