تلبیس
Persian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Arabic تَلْبِيس (talbīs).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [tal.biːs]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰæl.biːs]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰäl.bis]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | talbīs |
Dari reading? | talbīs |
Iranian reading? | talbis |
Tajik reading? | talbis |
Dari | تلبیس |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | таблис |
Noun
editتلبیس • (tablis) (plural تلبیسات (tablisât))
- fraud, imposture
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 254:
- هر که در دنیا خورد تلبیس دیو
و ز عدوی دوست رو تعظیم و ریو- har ki dar dunyā xwarad tablīs-i dēw
u za 'adū-i dōst rō ta'zīm u rēw - Whoever swallows the Devil's imposture in this world
and (swallows) veneration and deceit from the foe that has the face (semblance) of a friend
- har ki dar dunyā xwarad tablīs-i dēw
- guile, disguise
References
edit- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “تلبیس”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim