تلبیس

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَلْبِيس (talbīs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [tal.biːs]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäl.biːs]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäl.biːs]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäl.biːs]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäl.bis]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰæl.biːs]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäl.bis]

Readings
Classical reading?	talbīs
Dari reading?	talbīs
Iranian reading?	talbis
Tajik reading?	talbis

Dari	تلبیس
Iranian Persian
Tajik	таблис

Noun

تلبیس • (tablis) (plural تلبیسات (tablisât))

1. 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

2. guile, disguise

References

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “تلبیس”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim