غیبت

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Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic غَيْبَة (ḡayba, “absence”)

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? ğaybat
Dari reading? ğaybat
Iranian reading? ğeybat
Tajik reading? ġaybat

Noun

Dari غیبت
Iranian Persian
Tajik ғайбат

غیبت • (ğeybat)

  1. absence
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3639:
      پس به غیبت نیم ذره‌‌ی حفظ کار
      به که اندر حاضری ز آن صد هزار
      pas ba ğaybat nīm-i-zarra-i-hafiz kār
      ba ki andar hāzirī za ān sad hazāran
      Therefore half an atom of regard to one's duty in absence
      is better than a hundred thousand fold observance thereof in presence.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  2. backbiting, slander
    • mid-11th century, Abū ʿAlī ʿUsmanī, برگردان رسالهٔ قشیریه [Translation of the Qushayriyyan Epistle]:
      یاران را گفتی از دروغ و خیانت و غیبت دور باشید و جز این آنچه خواهید کنید.
      yārān rā guftē az durōğ u xiyānat u ğaybat dūr bāšēd u juz īn ānči xwāhēd kunēd.
      He would tell his friends, "Refrain from lies, betrayal, and slander, and besides these, do what you want."
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

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