مسلک

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَسْلَك (maslak)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [mas.lak]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäs.läk]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäs.läk]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mäs.läk]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mäs.läk]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæs.lækʲ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mäs.läk]

Readings
Classical reading?	maslak
Dari reading?	maslak
Iranian reading?	maslak
Tajik reading?	maslak

Noun

Dari	مسلک
Iranian Persian
Tajik	маслак

مسلک • (maslak) (plural مسالک (masālek))

1. way, path
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3086:

     هر نبی و هر ولی را مسلکی است / لیک تا حق می‌‌برد جمله یکی است

     har nabi u har walî râ maslak-i ast / lêk tâ haq mê-barad jumla yaki ast

     Every prophet and every saint hath a way (of religious doctrine and practice), but it leads to God: all (the ways) are (really) one.

2. method, manner
3. policy, course, program, principle

References

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