هلاک
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Persian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Arabic هَلَاك (halāk).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ha.ˈlɑːk]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [hæ.lɒ́ːkʲ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [hä.lɔ́k]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | halāk |
Dari reading? | halāk |
Iranian reading? | halâk |
Tajik reading? | halok |
Noun[edit]
هلاک • (halâk)
Adjective[edit]
هلاک • (halâk)
- ruined; destroyed; annihilated
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], 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.
- hayf mē-āmad ma-rā k-ān dīn-i pāk