غیبت
Persian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Arabic غَيْبَة (ḡayba, “absence”)
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ɣaj.ˈbat]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [qej.bǽt̪]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ʁäj.bǽt̪]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | ğaybat |
Dari reading? | ğaybat |
Iranian reading? | ğeybat |
Tajik reading? | ġaybat |
Nomen
editDari | غیبت |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | ғайбат |
غیبت • (ğeybat)
- absence
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3639:
- پس به غیبت نیم ذرهی حفظ کار
به که اندر حاضری ز آن صد هزار- pas ba ğaybat nīm-i-zarra-i-hafiz kār
ba ki andar hāzirī za ān sad hazāran - Therefore half an atom of regard to one's duty in absence
is better than a hundred thousand fold observance thereof in presence.
- pas ba ğaybat nīm-i-zarra-i-hafiz kār
- backbiting, slander
- mid-11th century, Abū ʿAlī ʿUsmanī, برگردان رسالهٔ قشیریه [Translation of the Qushayriyyan Epistle]:
- یاران را گفتی از دروغ و خیانت و غیبت دور باشید و جز این آنچه خواهید کنید.
- yārān rā guftē az durōğ u xiyānat u ğaybat dūr bāšēd u juz īn ānči xwāhēd kunēd.
- He would tell his friends, "Refrain from lies, betrayal, and slander, and besides these, do what you want."
References
edit- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “غیبت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim