خلوت

Arabic

Verb

خَلَوْتُ • (ḵalawtu) (form I)

1. first-person singular past active of خَلَا (ḵalā)

Verb

خَلَوْتَ • (ḵalawta) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular past active of خَلَا (ḵalā)

Verb

خَلَوْتِ • (ḵalawti) (form I)

1. second-person feminine singular past active of خَلَا (ḵalā)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic خَلْوَة (ḵalwa).

Noun

خلوت • (halvet)

1. solitude; privacy
2. private place; hermitage
3. wilderness

Descendants

• Turkish: halvet

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “halvet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خلوت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 861

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خَلْوَة (ḵalwa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [xal.wat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xäl.wät̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xäl.wät̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xäl.wät̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xäl.wät̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xæl.væt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χäl.vät̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	xalwat
Dari reading?	xalwat
Iranian reading?	xalvat
Tajik reading?	xalvat

Adjective

خلوت • (xalvat) (comparative خلوت‌تَر (xalvat-tar), superlative خلوت‌تَرین (xalvat-tarin))

1. uncrowded, with few people

   Antonym: شلوغ (šoluğ)

   آن کوچه خیلی خلوت بود.

   ân kuče xeyli xalvat bud.

   That alley was very uncrowded.

2. alone
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume III, verse 1581:

     فعل دارد زن که خلوت می‌کند.

     fe'l dârad zan ke xalvat mi-konad.

     My wife has an [evil] design, for she is making arrangements to be alone.