ظلمت
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Arabic
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[edit]- first-person singular past active of ظَلَمَ (ẓalama)
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[edit]- first-person singular past passive of ظَلَمَ (ẓalama)
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic ظُلْمَة (“darkness”)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [zul.mat]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [zol.mæt̪]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [zul.mät̪]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | zulmat |
Dari reading? | zulmat |
Iranian reading? | zolmat |
Tajik reading? | zulmat |
Dari | ظلمت |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | зулмат |
Noun
[edit]ظلمت • (zolmat) (plural ظلمات (zolomât))
- obscurity, darkness
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3863:
- گر چه ظلمت آمد آن نوم و سبات
نی درون ظلمت است آب حیات- gar či zulmat āmad ān nawm u subāt
nay dirūn zulmat ast āb-i hayāt - Although that sleep and rest are darkness,
is not the Water of Life within the darkness?
- gar či zulmat āmad ān nawm u subāt
References
[edit]Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “ظلمت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim