ظلمت

Arabic

Verb

ظَلَمْتُ • (ẓalamtu) (form I)

first-person singular past active of ظَلَمَ (ẓalama)

Verb

ظُلِمْتُ • (ẓulimtu) (form I)

first-person singular past passive of ظَلَمَ (ẓalama)

Verb

ظَلَمْتَ • (ẓalamta) (form I)

second-person masculine singular past active of ظَلَمَ (ẓalama)

Verb

ظُلِمْتَ • (ẓulimta) (form I)

second-person masculine singular past passive of ظَلَمَ (ẓalama)

Verb

ظَلَمْتِ • (ẓalamti) (form I)

second-person feminine singular past active of ظَلَمَ (ẓalama)

Verb

ظُلِمْتِ • (ẓulimti) (form I)

second-person feminine singular past passive of ظَلَمَ (ẓalama)

Verb

ظَلَمَتْ • (ẓalamat) (form I)

third-person feminine singular past active of ظَلَمَ (ẓalama)

Verb

ظُلِمَتْ • (ẓulimat) (form I)

third-person feminine singular past passive of ظَلَمَ (ẓalama)

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ظُلْمَة (“darkness”)

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [zul.mat]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [zʊl.mät̪]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [zʊl.mät̪]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [zul.mät̪]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [zol.mæt̪]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [zul.mät̪]

Readings
Classical reading^?	zulmat
Dari reading^?	zulmat
Iranian reading^?	zolmat
Tajik reading^?	zulmat


Iranian Persian	ظلمت
Dari	ظلمت
Tajik	зулмат

Noun

ظلمت • (zolmat) (plural ظلمات (zolomât))

obscurity, darkness
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3863:
  گر چه ظلمت آمد آن نوم و سبات
  نی درون ظلمت است آب حیات
  gar či zulmat āmad ān nawm u subāt
  nay dirūn zulmat ast āb-i hayāt
  Although that sleep and rest are darkness,
  is not the Water of Life within the darkness?

References

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

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