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haft[Pehl. & Pārsī haft; Zend hapta (base haptan); S. सƯ(base सƯन् )], adj. Seven:—haft-iqlīm, s.m. The seven climes or regions, the world:—haft-andām, s.f. The aorta or great artery; the great vein that runs through the arm:—haft-pahlū, adj. & s.m. Sevensided;—a seven-sided figure, a heptagon:—haft-ḵẖẉān, s.m. The seven feasts given by Rustam on the seven days in which he fought his way to Mazandaran to the rescue of Kaikā`ūs:—haft-dahum (see dahum), adj. Seventeenth:—haft-rangī, adj. Versatile, fickle, capricious; artful, cunning:—haft-zabān, A master of seven languages; a linguist:—haftqalam, s.m. The seven styles of handwriting (in Persian);—one who writes those seven hands:—haft-kishwar, s.m.=haft-iqlīm, q.v.:—haft-o-hasht, or haft-hasht, s.f.(?) (lit.'seven and eight'), High words, altercation;—litigation;—idle talk, language exciting enmity, etc.; abuse, scurrilous language:—haft-hazārī, s.f. The command of seven thousand;—s.m. Commander of seven thousand.
Origin: Persian