لعنت

Arabic

Verb

لعنت (form I)

1. لَعَنْتُ (laʕantu) /la.ʕan.tu/: first-person singular past active of لَعَنَ (laʕana)
2. لَعَنْتَ (laʕanta) /la.ʕan.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of لَعَنَ (laʕana)
3. لَعَنْتِ (laʕanti) /la.ʕan.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of لَعَنَ (laʕana)
4. لَعَنَتْ (laʕanat) /la.ʕa.nat/: third-person feminine singular past active of لَعَنَ (laʕana)
5. لُعِنْتُ (luʕintu) /lu.ʕin.tu/: first-person singular past passive of لَعَنَ (laʕana)
6. لُعِنْتَ (luʕinta) /lu.ʕin.ta/: second-person masculine singular past passive of لَعَنَ (laʕana)
7. لُعِنْتِ (luʕinti) /lu.ʕin.ti/: second-person feminine singular past passive of لَعَنَ (laʕana)
8. لُعِنَتْ (luʕinat) /lu.ʕi.nat/: third-person feminine singular past passive of لَعَنَ (laʕana)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic لَعْنَة (laʕna).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laˈnɛt/
• (vulgarly also) IPA^(key): /naˈlɛt/

Noun

لعنت • (lanet)

1. curse, anathema, an instance of malediction

Adjective

لعنت • (lanet)

1. (vulgar) damn, bloody

Descendants

• Turkish: lanet

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَعْنَة (laʕna).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /laʔ.ˈnat/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [läʔ.nát̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [läʔ.nát̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [lɑː.nát̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [lɔː.nát̪]

 

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [læʔ.nǽt̪ʰ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [læʔ.nǽt̪ʰ]
  • (Tehrani) IPA^(key): [læː.nǽt̪ʰ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [läʔ.nát̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	la'nat
Dari reading?	la'nat
Iranian reading?	la'nat
Tajik reading?	la'nat

Noun

لعنت • (la'nat) (Tajik spelling лаънат)

1. curse, execration

Adjective

لعنت • (la'nat) (Tajik spelling лаънат)

1. (vulgar) damn

Derived terms

• لعنتی (la'natī / la'nati)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “لعنت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “لعنت”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press.

Urdu

Noun

لعنت • (la'nat) f (Hindi spelling लानत)

1. curse, anathema, imprecation

Related terms

• لعنتی (la'natī, “cursed, accursed”)