لایق

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Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَائِق (lāʔiq).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading^?	lāyiq
Dari reading^?	lāyiq
Iranian reading^?	lâyeğ
Tajik reading^?	loyiq


Iranian Persian	لایق
Dari	لایق
Tajik	лойиқ

Adjective

لایق • (lâyeq) (comparative لایق‌تَر (lâyeq-tar), superlative لایق‌تَرین (lâyeq-tarin))

worthy, fit, deserving
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume II, verse 297:
  ور نه بر فانی قسم گفتن خطاست
  خود فنا چه لایق گفت خداست
  war na bar fānī qasam guftan xatā-st
  xwad finā či lāyiq guft-i xudā-st
  Else it is wrong to swear by a transient thing:
  how indeed is transiency proper to the speech of God?
capable, qualified, eligible

References

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

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