تاریک

See also: باریک and تازیک

Persian edit


Iranian Persian	تاریک
Dari	تاریک
Tajik	торик

Etymology edit

From Middle Persian [Term?] (/⁠tārīk⁠/), from [Term?] (/⁠tār⁠/, “darkness”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *témHos (whence modern (târ, “dark, faint”)), + Middle Persian [Term?] (/⁠-īk⁠/, adjective-deriving suffix) (whence modern (-i)). One of a few adjectives that has preserved the final -g/k phoneme and did not undergo the regular sound change from Middle Persian to Modern Persian. Others include باریک (bârik, “slender”) and نزدیک (nazdik, “near”).

Pronunciation edit

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ˈtɑː.ɾiːk]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɑ́ː.ɾiːk]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɑ́ː.ɾiːk]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɔ́ː.ɾik]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɒ́ː.ɹiːkʲ]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɔ́.ɾik]

Readings
Classical reading^?	tārīk
Dari reading^?	tārīk
Iranian reading^?	târik
Tajik reading^?	torik

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Adjective edit

تاریک • (târik) (comparative تاریک‌تَر (târik-tar), superlative تاریک‌تَرین (târik-tarin))

dark; dim
Antonym: روشن (rowšan)
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3660:
  چون شما تاریک بودم در نهاد
  وحی خورشیدم چنین نوری بداد
  čōn šumā tārīk būdam dar nihād
  wahī-i xwaršēd-am čunīn nūrī bi-dād
  Like you, I was dark in my nature:
  the Sun's revelation gave me such a light as this.
sombre
Antonym: روشن (rowšan)