لیک

See also: لیگ

Persian

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of لیکن (lēkin) from Arabic لٰكِنْ (lākin, “but”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [leːk]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [leːk]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [leːk]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [leːk]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [leːk]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [liːkʲ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [lek]

Readings
Classical reading?	lēk
Dari reading?	lēk
Iranian reading?	lik
Tajik reading?	lek

Conjunction

لیک • (lik)

1. (archaic) but, however, nevertheless
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 133:

     گر چه تفسیر زبان روشن‌‌گر است / لیک عشق بی‌‌زبان روشن‌‌تر است

     gar cha tafsîr-i-zabân rawšan-gar ast / lek 'išq-i-bezabân rawšan-tar ast

     Although the commentary of the tongue makes (all) clear, yet tongueless love is clearer.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liːk/

Noun

لیک • (lik)

1. (dialectal, Bushehr) scream