مسلک

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Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَسْلَك (maslak)

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? maslak
Dari reading? maslak
Iranian reading? maslak
Tajik reading? maslak

Noun

Dari مسلک
Iranian Persian
Tajik маслак

مسلک (maslak) (plural مسالک (masālek))

  1. way, path
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3086:
      هر نبی و هر ولی را مسلکی است / لیک تا حق می‌‌برد جمله یکی است
      har nabi u har walî râ maslak-i ast / lêk tâ haq mê-barad jumla yaki ast
      Every prophet and every saint hath a way (of religious doctrine and practice), but it leads to God: all (the ways) are (really) one.
  2. method, manner
  3. policy, course, program, principle

References

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