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单词 simurgh
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simurghn.

/sɪˈməːɡ/
Forms: Also simurg, simorg(h.
Etymology: < Persian sīmurgh, < Pahlavi sīn (Avestan saēna, Sanskrit çyena) eagle + murgh bird.
A monstrous bird of Persian legend, imagined as rational, having the power of speech, and of great age.
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1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 89 Is the Simurgh coming to pluck out my eyes?
a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1849) 2nd Ser. 459/1 In the Bahar Danush the Simurgh is mentioned as a genus, not an individual. This is heresy, the unity of the Simurgh being expressed in all the books of canonical romance.
1886 P. Robinson Valley Teetotum Trees 152 Some Brobdingnagian condor like the Simurg, with feathers that were large enough for oars—or the Roc itself.
β. 1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. viii. 124 In Kaf the Simorg hath his dwelling place, The all-knowing Bird of Ages.1864 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 7) 305 Simorgh, and rokh, and phœnix, comet-like, Which nested in the sun.a1871 A. De Morgan Budget of Paradoxes (1872) 329 I am an ‘old bird’,..a Simorg, an ‘all-knowing Bird of Ages’ in matters of cyclometry.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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