قطب

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قطب • (qotb) (plural قطبها (qotb-hâ) or اقطاب (aqtâb))

qotb (romanization)
قطبها (plural)
اقطاب (plural)

(Sufism) saint; specifically, a high-ranking saint considered the "pole of the world".


بیخودی

From بیخود (bixod, “selfless”) + ـی (-i).

(Sufism) selflessness (More than mere selflessness, it describes a state of ecstasy and joyous intoxication resulting from a state of unity with God.)


حال

حال • (hâl) (plural حالات (hâlât) or احوال (ahvâl))

hâl (romanization)
حالات (plural)
احوال (plural)

→ Hindi: हाल (hāl)

→ Punjabi: ਹਾਲ (hāl)

→ Urdu: حال (hāl)

(including Sufism) ecstatic or mystical state

condition; state
ecstatic or mystical state


عیسی

عیسی • ('isâ)

fa-proper noun

عیسی • ('isâ)

Tajik: Исо (Iso)

→ Chagatai:

Uzbek: Iso

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: ईसा (īsā)

Urdu: عِیسیٰ ('īsā)

→ Kazakh: Иса (İsa), Ыйса (Yisa)

→ Punjabi:

Gurmukhi script: ਈਸਾ (īsā)

Shahmukhi script: عِیسیٰ (ʻīsá)

→ Rohingya: Isá

→ Sylheti: ꠁꠍꠣ (isá)


ولی

Borrowed from Arabic وَلِيّ (waliyy), from the root و ل ي (w l y).


روش

rawiš (romanization)
raveš (romanization)
روشها (plural)

From رو (raw /row, present stem of رفتن (raftan, “to go”)) + ـش (-iš /-eš).

af

present stem of <i class="Arab fa-Arab mention" lang="fa">رفتن</i> (raftan, “to go”)

(Sufism) levels of the mystical journey towards God


پیر

→ Azerbaijani: pir

→ Bengali: পীর (pīr)

→ English: pir

→ Saraiki: پیر (pīr)

→ Sylheti: ꠙꠤꠞ (fir)

→ Urdu: پیر (pīr)

From Middle Persian 𐬞𐬌𐬭 (pyl /pīr/, “old, aged, ancient”), from Proto-Iranian *paru- (“ash-gray, pale gray, hoary”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *parHušás (“gray”); compare Sanskrit परुष (paruṣa, “spotted, rough”) and English pale.


میدان

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میدان • (meydân) (plural میدانها (meydân-hâ))

Tajik: майдон (maydon)

→ Uzbek: maydon

→ Assamese: ময়দান (moyodan)

→ Azerbaijani: meydan

→ Braj: मैदान (maidān)

→ Middle Bengali: ময়দান (moẏdan)

Bengali: ময়দান (moẏdan)

→ Dhivehi: މައިޒާން (maizān̊)

→ Dogri: madān

Devanagari script: मदान

Dogra script: 𑠢𑠛𑠬𑠝

→ Georgian: მოედანი (moedani)

→ Gojri: میدان (maidān)

→ Gujarati: મેદાન (medān)

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: मैदान (maidān)

Urdu: مَیْدَانْ (maidān)

→ Kannada: ಮೈದಾನ (maidāna)

→ Kashmiri: mạ̄dān

Arabic script: مٲدان

Devanagari script: मऻदान

Sharada script: 𑆩𑆳𑆢𑆳𑆤𑇀

→ Kazakh: майдан (maidan)

→ Konkani:

Devanagari script: मैदान (maidān)

Kannada script: ಮಯ್ದಾನ್

Latin script: moidan

→ Kumyk: майдан (maydan)

→ Lezgi: майдан (majdan)

→ Maithili: medān

Devanagari script: मॆदान

Tirhuta script: 𑒧𑒺𑒠𑒰𑒢

→ Malayalam: മൈദാനം (maidānaṁ)

→ Malvi: मेदान (medān)

→ Marathi: maidān

Devanagari script: मैदान

Modi script: 𑘦𑘺𑘟𑘰𑘡

→ Marwari:

Devanagari script: मैदान (maidān)

Mahajani script: 𑅬𑅑𑅥𑅧 (midn)

→ Nepali: मैदान (maidān)

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→ Ottoman Turkish: میدان (meydân)
Turkish: meydan
→ Albanian: mejdan
→ Aromanian: migdane, migdãni, miydane
→ Bulgarian: мегда́н (megdán)
→ Crimean Tatar: meydan
→ Czech: mejdan
→ Greek: μεϊντάνι (meïntáni)
→ Macedonian: мегдан (megdan)
→ Romanian: maidan
→ Serbo-Croatian: mègdān / мѐгда̄н, mèjdān / мѐјда̄н
→ Tatar: мәйдан (mäydan)

→ Odia: ମଇଦାନ (maidāna)

→ Old Punjabi: ਮੈਦਾਨੁ (maidānu)
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi script: ਮੈਦਾਨ (maidān), ਮਦਾਨ (madān)
Shahmukhi script: مَیدان (maidān)

→ Sindhi: maidānu

Arabic script: مَيدانُ

Devanagari script: मैदानु

Khudabadi script: 𑋗𑋦𑋏𑋠𑋑𑋣

→ Telugu: మైదానము (maidānamu)

→ Ukrainian: майдан (majdan) (via a Turkic language)

→ Uyghur: مەيدان (meydan)

→ Uzbek: maydon

→ Khorezmian Turkic: ميدان (mäydan)

→ Zazaki: meydan

Borrowed from Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān), itself an Iranian borrowing. Doublet of میان (miyân).

(Sufism, uncommon) stage of the mystical path


گنوستیک

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گنوستیک • (gnostik) (plural گنوستیکها (gnostik-hâ))

gnostik (romanization)
گنوستیکها (plural)

ما گنوستیکیم.
Mâ gnostikim.
We are Gnostics.


سوفیا

سوفیا • (sofiyâ)

fa-proper noun

سوفیا • (sofiyâ)


دمیورژ

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دمیورژ • (demiurž)

fa-noun

دمیورژ • (demiurž)


رند

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رِند • (rend) (plural رِندان (rendân) or رُنود (ronud))

رِند (canonical)
rend (romanization)
رِندان (plural)
رُنود (plural)

→ Azerbaijani: rind

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→ Armenian: ռինդ (ṙind), ռինտ (ṙint), ըռինտ (əṙint), ռընդ (ṙənd), ռունդ (ṙund), ռունտ (ṙunt), ռոնտ (ṙont), ըռունդ (əṙund), էրոնդ (ērond), էրանդ (ērand)

→ Ottoman Turkish: رند (rind)

Turkish: rint

Unknown. The Arabic broken plural is unetymological. Akin to Northern Kurdish rind.

عاشق و رند و نظربازم و میگویم فاش
تا بدانی که به چندین هنر آراستهام

c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 311”, in The Divān of Hafez:

I am lover and rogue and player-with-glances, and I say so out loud
So that you might know with how many skills I am graced.

'âšiq u rind u nazarbâz-am u mê-gûyam fâš
tâ bidânî ki ba čandîn hunar ârâsta-am

(poetic, Sufism) someone who seems morally debauched, but is pure at heart and superior to those who blindly follow social norms


انسان کامل

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انسان کامل • (ensân-e kâmel)

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انسان کامل • (ensân-e kâmel)

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Ottoman Turkish: انسان كامل (insan-ı kâmil)

Turkish: insan-ı kâmil

Urdu: انسان کامل (insān-i kāmil)


تصوف

Borrowed from Arabic تَصَوُّف (taṣawwuf).


حالت

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حالت • (hâlat) (plural حالتها (hâlat-hâ) or حالات (hâlât))

hâlat (romanization)
حالتها (plural)
حالات (plural)

→ Bengali: হালত (halot)

→ Hindi: हालत (hālat)

→ Punjabi: ਹਾਲਤ (hālat)

→ Urdu: حالَت (hālat)

دلا خوبا جفا کن ز آنکه در عشق رخ خوبان
وفا دیباچه هجرست و حالت در جفا بودست

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 118:

O heart, o beauty! Make me suffer, because in the love for the faces of beauties
Loyalty is the preface to separation, and there has been rapture in suffering.

dilā xūbā jafā kun zi ānki dar išq-i rux-i xūbān
wafā dībāča-yi hajr ast u hālat dar jafā būdast

(including Sufism) rapture, spiritual ecstasy


محو

(Sufism) absorption of the human self into God


توجه

تَوَجُّه • (tavajjoh) (plural تَوَجُّهات (tavajjohât))

تَوَجُّه (canonical)
tavajjoh (romanization)
تَوَجُّهات (plural)

→ Gujarati: તવજ્જોહ (tavajjoh)

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: तवज्जो (tavajjo)

Urdu: تَوَجُّہ (tavajjo)

→ Punjabi: tavajjo

Gurmukhi script: ਤਵੱਜੋ

Shahmukhi script: تَوَجّو

→ Sindhi:

Arabic script: تَوَجَهَ

Devanagari script: तवज्जह

[t̪ʰä.wäd͡ʒ.d͡ʒo̞ʱ]

[t̪ʰä.wäd͡ʒ.d͡ʒo̞ʱ]

[t̪ʰä.wäd͡ʒ.d͡ʒʊ]

[t̪ʰæ.væd͡ʒ.d͡ʒoʱ]

[t̪ʰä.väd͡ʒ.d͡ʒɵʰ]

Borrowed from Arabic تَوَجُّه (tawajjuh).

bor+

(Sufism) inward concentration on God or a spiritual master


ازل

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: अज़ल (azal)

Urdu: ازل (azal)

Borrowed from Arabic أَزَل (ʔazal), from Middle Persian 𐭫𐭠𐭮 (ʾsl /asar/, “endless”), from 𐭠 (ʾ- /a-/, “un-, without”) + 𐭫𐭮 (sl /sar/, “head; end”, whence modern سر (sar)).

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در ازل پرتوِ حسنت ز تجلی دم زد
عشق پیدا شد و آتش به همه عالم زد

c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 152”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]:

In pre-eternity, your beauty's ray let out a breath from epiphany;
Love emerged and set fire to the entire world.

dar azal partaw-i husn-at zi tajalli dam zad
išq paydā šud u ātiš ba hama ālam zad

(Islam, Sufism) pre-eternity, eternity without beginning; the era before God created space and time


خانقاه

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خانقاه • (xânaqâh) (plural خانقاهها (xânaqâh-hâ))

xânaqâh (romanization)
خانقاهها (plural)

[xɑː.nä.qɑ́ːʱ]

[xɑː.nä.qɑ́ːʱ]

[xɒː.næ.ʁɒ́ːʰ]

[χɔ.nä.qɔ́ʱ]

Borrowed from Arabic خَانَقَاه (ḵānaqāh), from Classical Persian خَانَگَاه (xānagāh), from خَانَه (xāna, “house”) + ـگَاه (-gāh).


جمع الجمع

جمع الجمع (canonical)
jam'-ol-jam' (romanization)


مرشد

Coordinate term: مرید (morid, “disciple, follower”)

ما بخود پا ننهادیم درین ره هرگز
همه جا مرشد توفیق بود رهبر ما

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 107:

I have never set foot on this road on my own;
Everywhere, the spiritual master of divine grace was my guide.

mā ba-xwad pā nanihādēm dar īn rah hargiz
hama jā muršid-i tawfīq būd rahbar-i mā

(religion) spiritual guide, religious master; (Sufism) Sufi shaykh


سالک

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سالک • (sâlek) (plural سالکان (sâlekân))

(Sufism) Sufi devotee; traveler on the mystical path


خرقه

Borrowed from Arabic خِرْقَة (ḵirqa, “rags, tatters”).

bor+

mantle; cloak; habit (usually of a dervish or saint, especially one ragged from asceticism)


تأله

تَأَلُّه (canonical)
ta'alloh (romanization)

[t̪ʰɑːäl.lʊ]

[t̪ʰä.ʔäl.lɵʰ]

Borrowed from Arabic تَأَلُّه (taʔalluh).

(philosophy, Sufism) theosis; deiformity (becoming Godlike, the ultimate stage of human perfection in certain schools of Islamic philosophy)


فنا

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فنا • (fanâ)

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فنا • (fanâ)

→ Gujarati: ફના (phanā)

(Sufism) annihilation of the individual by being absorbed into God


نقشبندی

[næʁʃ.bæn̪.d̪íː]

From نقشبند (naqšband, “[Baha' al-Din] Naqshband”) + ـی (-i).


عشق مجازی

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عشق مجازی • (ešq-e majâzi)

fa-noun

عشق مجازی • (ešq-e majâzi)

[ˈɪʃ.qɪ mä.d͡ʒɑː.zíː]

[ˈɪʃ.qɪ mä.d͡ʒɑː.zíː]

[ˈɪʃ.qɪ mä.d͡ʒɑː.zíː]

[ˈeʃ.ɢe mæ.d͡ʒɒː.zíː]

Literally "allegorical love", because love for a human beloved is considered an allegory or stepping stone for love towards God.

Coordinate term: عشق حقیقی (ešq-e haqiqi)

(Sufism) human love; physical love (as opposed to love towards God)


ملکوت

Borrowed from Arabic مَلَكُوت (malakūt).

مرغ باغ ملکوتم نیم از عالم خاک
دو سه روزی قفسی ساختهاند از بدنم

c. 1300, Humām-i Tabrīzī, “Ghazal 142”, in دیوان همام تبریزی:

I am a bird from the garden of malakūt, not from the world of earth!
They [only] built a cage out of my body for two or three days.

murğ-i bāğ-i malakūt-am niyam az ālam-i xāk
du si rōzē qafasē saxta-and az badan-am

(Islam, Sufism) Malakut, a cosmic plane between the angelic and imaginal realms


ابدال

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ابدال • (abdâl)

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ابدال • (abdâl)

[ʔäb.d̪ɑ́ːl]

[ʔäb.d̪ɑ́ːl]

[ʔäb.d̪ɑ́ːl]

[ʔäb.d̪ɔ́ːl̥]

[ʔæb.d̪ɒ́ːl̥]

Borrowed from Arabic أَبْدَال (ʔabdāl), plural of بَدَل (badal, “subsitute”).

(collective, Sufism) saints (often said to be forty) for whose sake God maintains the world