Persian · proper noun · People & Roles

Suqraat

सुक़रात

said suq-raat

also written: socrates, suqrat, sokrat

Meaning

Socrates, the Greek philosopher who drank the hemlock; emblem of the sage martyred for truth.

Related words

PERSIAN

Aflatoon

Plato, the Greek philosopher; the byword for supreme wisdom and the type of the lofty, world-renouncing sage. In Iqbal, criticised for leading thought away from life.

ARABIC

Yunan

Greece; ancient Greek civilisation.

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