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یقین

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See also: يفين, يقين, and يقئن

Ottoman Turkish

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Adjective

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یقین (yakın)

  1. Alternative spelling of یاقین

Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic يَقِين (yaqīn).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? yaqīn
Dari reading? yaqīn
Iranian reading? yağin
Tajik reading? yaqin

Adjective

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Dari یقین
Iranian Persian
Tajik яқин

یقین (yaqin)

  1. sure, certain
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 130:
      بهر صحرا که گریان کرده‌ام ره دور ازان کاکل
      یقین میدان که بی بوی غم عشقت گیاهی نیست
      ba har sahrā ki giryān karda'am rah dūr az ān kākul
      yaqīn mēdān ki bē bō-yi ğam-i išqat giyāhē nēst
      In each wasteland where I wept, the road was distant from those locks of hair;
      Know for sure that there are no plants [there] without the scent of grief from loving you.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Noun

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یقین (yaqin)

  1. certainty
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 860:
      ز آتش ار علمت یقین شد از سخن
      پختگی جو در یقین منزل مکن
      zi ātiš ar ilm-at yaqīn šud az suxun
      puxtagī jō dar yaqīn manzil ma-kun
      If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words (alone),
      seek to be cooked (by the fire itself), and do not abide in the certainty (of knowledge derived from others).

Derived terms

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Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian یَقِین (yaqīn), from Arabic يَقِين (yaqīn).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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یقین (yaqīn) (Hindi spelling यक़ीन)

  1. sure
  2. certain

Noun

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یقین (yaqīnm (Hindi spelling यक़ीन)

  1. certainty
  2. belief