هلاک

Persian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Semitic *halak-

Arabic هَلَكَ (halaka)

Arabic هَلَاك (halāk)bor.

Persian هَلَاک

Borrowed from Arabic هَلَاك (halāk), from هَلَكَ (halaka), from Proto-Semitic *halak-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ha.ˈlɑːk]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.lɑ́ːk]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.lɑ́ːk]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔä.lɑ́ːk]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔä.lɔ́ːk]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [hæ.lɒ́ːkʲ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.lɔ́k]

Readings
Classical reading?	halāk
Dari reading?	halāk
Iranian reading?	halâk
Tajik reading?	halok

Noun

هلاک • (halâk)

1. ruin; destruction; perdition

   Synonyms: نابودی (nâbudi), دمار (damâr), فنا (fanâ), زوال (zavâl), هلاکت (halâkat)

Adjective

هلاک • (halâk)

1. ruined; destroyed; annihilated
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 357:

     حیف می‌‌آمد مرا کان دین پاک
     در میان جاهلان گردد هلاک‌‌

     hayf mē-āmad ma-rā k-ān dīn-i pāk
     dar miyān-i jāhilān gardad halāk

     Grief was coming over me that that holy religion should perish amongst those who are ignorant.