مسئله

See also: مسئلہ

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• مسأله

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَسْأَلَة (masʔala).

Noun

مسئله • (mesʾele) (plural مسائل)

1. an asking alms
2. an asking anything
3. a question, a problem
4. a point under consideration, a thesis; a proposition

Descendants

• Turkish: mesele

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مسئله”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1861

Persian

Alternative forms

• مسأله (mas'ale), مساله (mas'ale)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic سَأَلَ (saʔala)

Arabic مَسْأَلَة (masʔala)bor.

Persian مَسئَله

Borrowed from Arabic مَسْأَلَة (masʔala), from سَأَلَ (saʔala).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [mas.ʔa.la]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäs.ʔä.lä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäs.ʔä.lä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mä.sä.lä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mä.sä.lä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæs.ʔæ.le]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mäs.ʔä.lä]

Readings
Classical reading?	mas'ala
Dari reading?	mas'ala
Iranian reading?	mas'ale
Tajik reading?	masʾala

Noun

Dari	مسئله
Iranian Persian
Tajik	масъала

مَسئَله • (mas'ale) (plural مَسائِل (masâ'el) or مَسئَله‌ها)

1. problem, question
2. issue