مسلک
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Persian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic مَسْلَك (maslak)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [mas.lak]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [mæs.lækʲ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [mäs.läk]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | maslak |
Dari reading? | maslak |
Iranian reading? | maslak |
Tajik reading? | maslak |
Noun
[edit]Dari | مسلک |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | маслак |
مسلک • (maslak) (plural مسالک (masālek))
- way, path
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3086:
- هر نبی و هر ولی را مسلکی است / لیک تا حق میبرد جمله یکی است
- har nabi u har walî râ maslak-i ast / lêk tâ haq mê-barad jumla yaki ast
- Every prophet and every saint hath a way (of religious doctrine and practice), but it leads to God: all (the ways) are (really) one.
- method, manner
- policy, course, program, principle
References
[edit]Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “مسلک”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim