ملکوت

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Persian

Etymology

    Borrowed from Arabic مَلَكُوت (malakūt).

    Pronunciation

    Readings
    Classical reading? malakūt
    Dari reading? malakūt
    Iranian reading? malakut
    Tajik reading? malakut

    Noun

    ملکوت (malakut)

    1. kingdom, dominion, reign
    2. (Islam, Sufism) Malakut, a cosmic plane between the angelic and imaginal realms
      • c. 1300, Humām-i Tabrīzī, “Ghazal 142”, in دیوان همام تبریزی:
        مرغ باغ ملکوتم نیم از عالم خاک
        دو سه روزی قفسی ساخته‌اند از بدنم
        murğ-i bāğ-i malakūt-am niyam az ālam-i xāk
        du si rōzē qafasē saxta-and az badan-am
        I am a bird from the garden of malakūt, not from the world of earth!
        They built a cage out of my body for two or three days.