ظلمت

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Arabic

Verb

ظلمت (form I)

  1. ظَلَمْتُ (ẓalamtu) /ðˤa.lam.tu/: first-person singular past active of ظَلَمَ (ẓalama)
  2. ظَلَمْتَ (ẓalamta) /ðˤa.lam.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of ظَلَمَ (ẓalama)
  3. ظَلَمْتِ (ẓalamti) /ðˤa.lam.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of ظَلَمَ (ẓalama)
  4. ظَلَمَتْ (ẓalamat) /ðˤa.la.mat/: third-person feminine singular past active of ظَلَمَ (ẓalama)
  5. ظُلِمْتُ (ẓulimtu) /ðˤu.lim.tu/: first-person singular past passive of ظَلَمَ (ẓalama)
  6. ظُلِمْتَ (ẓulimta) /ðˤu.lim.ta/: second-person masculine singular past passive of ظَلَمَ (ẓalama)
  7. ظُلِمْتِ (ẓulimti) /ðˤu.lim.ti/: second-person feminine singular past passive of ظَلَمَ (ẓalama)
  8. ظُلِمَتْ (ẓulimat) /ðˤu.li.mat/: third-person feminine singular past passive of ظَلَمَ (ẓalama)
  9. ظَلِمْتُ (ẓalimtu) /ðˤa.lim.tu/: first-person singular past active of ظَلِمَ (ẓalima)
  10. ظَلِمْتَ (ẓalimta) /ðˤa.lim.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of ظَلِمَ (ẓalima)
  11. ظَلِمْتِ (ẓalimti) /ðˤa.lim.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of ظَلِمَ (ẓalima)
  12. ظَلِمَتْ (ẓalimat) /ðˤa.li.mat/: third-person feminine singular past active of ظَلِمَ (ẓalima)

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ظُلْمَة (darkness)

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? zulmat
Dari reading? zulmat
Iranian reading? zolmat
Tajik reading? zulmat
Dari ظلمت
Iranian Persian
Tajik зулмат

Noun

ظلمت (zolmat) (plural ظلمات (zolomât))

  1. obscurity, darkness
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, 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