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zamāna (for A. زمانة ,from zamān) s.m. Time, period, duration; season; a long time; an age; (in Gram.) tense;—the world; the heavens; fortune, destiny:—zamāna dekhnā, To see the world, to gain experience:—zamāna-sāz, s.m. A time-server, temporizer, turn-coat, sycophant:—zamāna-sāzī, s.f. Time-serving, turning with the tide, yielding to fortune; sycophancy; hypocrisy; necessity;—zamāna-sāzīkarnā, To turn with the tide, to temporize, etc.:—zamāneke muwāfiq, According to the times, according to the fashion of the day:—zamāna-muwāfiq, adj. Well-timed; favoured by the times or by fortune, fortunate.
Origin: Persian