توفیق

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَوْفِيق (tawfīq).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [taw.ˈfiːq]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäw.fíːq]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäw.fíːq]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäw.fíːq]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäw.fíq]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰow.fíːɢ̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäw.fíq]

Readings
Classical reading?	tawfīq
Dari reading?	tawfīq
Iranian reading?	towfiğ
Tajik reading?	tavfiq

Noun

توفیق • (towfiq)

1. grace, favor; (especially) divine grace, God's grace

   Synonym: لطف (lotf)

   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 107:

     ما بخود پا ننهادیم درین ره هرگز
     همه جا مرشد توفیق بود رهبر ما

     mā ba-xwad pā nanihādēm dar īn rah hargiz
     hama jā muršid-i tawfīq būd rahbar-i mā

     I have never set foot on this road on my own;
     Everywhere, the spiritual master of divine grace was my guide.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

2. success

   Synonym: موفقیت (movafaqiyyat)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “توفیق”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim