هلاک

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Persian

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Arabic هَلَاك (halāk), from هَلَكَ (halaka), from Proto-Semitic *halak-.

    Pronunciation

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    Readings
    Classical reading? halāk
    Dari reading? halāk
    Iranian reading? halâk
    Tajik reading? halok

    Noun

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    هلاک (halâk)

    1. ruin; destruction; perdition
      Synonyms: نابودی (nâbudi), دمار (damâr), فنا (fanâ), زوال (zavâl), هلاکت (halâkat)

    Adjective

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    هلاک (halâk)

    1. ruined; destroyed; annihilated
      • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume I, verse 357:
        حیف می‌‌آمد مرا کان دین پاک
        در میان جاهلان گردد هلاک‌‌
        hayf mē-āmad ma-rā k-ān dīn-i pāk
        dar miyān-i jāhilān gardad halāk
        Grief was coming over me that that holy religion should perish amongst those who are ignorant.