Âvâre

Âvâre, a Persian word, describes one who wanders without a place. Sami gives a second sense too: someone idle, without work, left inactive.

The word moves between two kinds of displacement: having no place to arrive, and having no task to return to.

Original one-of-a-kind artwork from the Mestûr collection.
Iranian ink on an original 125-year-old Kâmus-ı Türkî page.
Page 58 · Right column · Line 4.

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