تکلیف

See also: تكليف

Persian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic كَلَّفَ (kallafa)

Arabic تَكْلِيف (taklīf)bor.

Persian تکلیف

Borrowed from Arabic تَكْلِيف (taklīf), from كَلَّفَ (kallafa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /tak.ˈliːf/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäk.liːf]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäk.liːf]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäk.liːf]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäk.lif]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰækʰʲ.liːf]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäk.lif]

Readings
Classical reading?	taklīf
Dari reading?	taklīf
Iranian reading?	taklif
Tajik reading?	taklif

Noun

تکلیف • (taklīf / taklif) (plural تکلیف‌ها (taklīf-hā / taklif-hâ), or تکالیف (takālīf / takâlif), Tajik spelling таклиф)

1. responsibility, task

   Synonyms: مسئولیت (mas'ūliyyat / mas'uliyat), وظیفه (wazīfa / vazife)

2. (Islam) responsibility
3. (Islam) puberty

   Synonym: بلوغ (bulūġ / boluġ)

   سن تکلیف ― sinn-i taklīf / senn-e taklif ― age of puberty

4. status, state, role

   تعیین تکلیف ― ta'yīn-i taklīf / ta'yin-e taklif ― deciding something's status

5. homework

   Synonym: مشق (mašq / mašġ)

6. proper course or thing to do, imposition
7. (verbal noun, dated) troubling, bothering
   1. (Dari, otherwise dated) trouble, misery, inconvenience

Derived terms

• (Dari) آخرین تکلیف (āxarīn taklīf, “last straw”)

Descendants

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: तकलीफ़ (taklīf)

  Urdu: تَکلِیف (taklīf)

• → Turkmen: teklip
• → Uyghur: تەكلىپ (teklip)
• → Uzbek: taklif

Further reading

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “تکلیف”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press.
• محمد معین [Mohammad-e Mo'in] (1972), “تکلیف”, in Jafar Shahidi, editor, فرهنگ فارسی معین [Farhang-e Fârsi-ye Mo'in, Moin Persian Dictionary] (in Persian), Tehran: Amir Kabir Publishers.
• ʿAmīd, Ḥasan (1985), “تکلیف”, in Farhang-e Fārsī-e ʿAmīd (in Persian), Tehrān: Amīrkabīr
• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “تکلیف”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• “تکلیف”, in The Wilson English - Dari Dictionary (Webonary), SIL International, 2013
• Bulkin, Carleton (2012), “تکلیف”, in Dari-English/English-Dari practical dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, →LCCN
• “تکلیف”, in قاموس کبیر افغانستان [qāmūs-i kabīr-i afġānistān, The Great Dictionary of Afghanistan] (in Persian), Afghan Dictionary, 2023

Urdu

Etymology

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Arabic كَلَّفَ (kallafa)

Arabic تَكْلِيف (taklīf)bor.

Classical Persian تَکْلِیف (taklīf)bor.

Urdu تَکْلِیف

Borrowed from Classical Persian تَکْلِیف (taklīf), borrowed from Arabic تَكْلِيف (taklīf), from كَلَّفَ (kallafa).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t̪ək.liːf/
• Rhymes: -iːf

Noun

تَکْلِیف • (taklīf) f (Hindi spelling तकलीफ़)

1. trouble, difficulty
2. affliction, pain
3. suffering, hardship, distress

Declension

Declension of تکلیف

	singular	plural
direct	تکلیف (taklīf)	تکلیفیں (taklīfẽ)
oblique	تکلیف (taklīf)	تکلیفوں (taklīfõ)
vocative	تکلیف (taklīf)	تکلیفو (taklīfo)

Synonyms

• آسیب (āseb)
• دَرْد (dard)
• دُکھ (dukh)

References

• “تکلیف”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “تکلیف”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.