یقین

See also: يفين, يقين, and يقئن

Ottoman Turkish

Adjective

یقین • (yakın)

1. Alternative spelling of یاقین

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic يَقِين (yaqīn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ja.ˈqiːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [jä.qíːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [jä.qíːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [jä.qíːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [jä.qín]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [jæ.ʁíːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [jä.qín]

Readings
Classical reading?	yaqīn
Dari reading?	yaqīn
Iranian reading?	yağin
Tajik reading?	yaqin

Adjective

Dari	یقین
Iranian Persian
Tajik	яқин

یقین • (yaqin)

1. sure, certain
   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 130:

     بهر صحرا که گریان کرده‌ام ره دور ازان کاکل
     یقین میدان که بی بوی غم عشقت گیاهی نیست

     ba har sahrā ki giryān karda'am rah dūr az ān kākul
     yaqīn mēdān ki bē bō-yi ğam-i išqat giyāhē nēst

     In each wasteland where I wept, the road was distant from those locks of hair;
     Know for sure that there are no plants [there] without the scent of grief from loving you.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Noun

یقین • (yaqin)

1. certainty
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 860:

     ز آتش ار علمت یقین شد از سخن
     پختگی جو در یقین منزل مکن‏

     zi ātiš ar ilm-at yaqīn šud az suxun
     puxtagī jō dar yaqīn manzil ma-kun

     If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words (alone),
     seek to be cooked (by the fire itself), and do not abide in the certainty (of knowledge derived from others).

Derived terms

• یقین داشتن (yaqin dâštan)
• یقیناً (yaqinan)
• یقینی (yaqini)

 

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian یَقِین (yaqīn), from Arabic يَقِين (yaqīn).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /jə.qiːn/

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• Rhymes: -iːn

Adjective

یقین • (yaqīn) (Hindi spelling यक़ीन)

1. sure
2. certain

Noun

یقین • (yaqīn) m (Hindi spelling यक़ीन)

1. certainty
2. belief