عصمت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic عِصْمَة (ʕiṣma).

Proper noun

عصمت • (Ismet)

1. a male given name from Arabic, notably belonging to Ismet Inonu, second president of Turkey.

Descendants

• Turkish: İsmet
• → Albanian: Ismet
• → Serbo-Croatian: Ismet

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عِصْمَة (ʕiṣma).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔis.ˈmat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪs.mǽt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪs.mǽt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɪs.mǽt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔis.mǽt̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔes.mǽt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔis.mǽt̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	ismat
Dari reading?	ismat
Iranian reading?	esmat
Tajik reading?	ismat

Noun

Dari	عصمت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	исмат

عصمت • (esmat)

1. (Islam) infallibility; protection from sin (e.g. of the Shi'a imams)
2. (archaic) chastity; purity

   زن با عصمت ― zan bâ esmat ― chaste woman

   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 3”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[1]:

     من از آن حسن روزافزون که یوسف داشت دانستم
     که عشق از پرده عصمت برون آرد زلیخا را

     man az ān husn-i rōz-afzūn ki yūsuf dāšt dānistam
     ki išq az parda-yi ismat birūn ārad zulayxā rā

     I have learnt, from that daily-increasing beauty that Joseph had,
     That Love will bring Zoleykha out from behind the curtain of modesty.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

• بی‌عصمت (bi-esmat, “unchaste”)
• عصمتی (esmati, “relating to chastity”)
• عصمت‌پناه (esmat-panâh, “chaste woman”, literally “sanctuary of chastity”)