مطلع

Verbal noun and noun of place from the verb طَلَعَ (ṭalaʕa).

• IPA^(key): /matˤ.laʕ/

مَطْلَع • (maṭlaʕ) m (plural مَطَالِع (maṭāliʕ))

1. beginning, onset, outset
2. the first line of a qasida or ghazal
3. rising of any celestial body

   Coordinate term: مَغْرِب (maḡrib)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 97:5:

     سَلَامٌ هِيَ حَتَّىٰ مَطْلَعِ الْفَجْرِ

     salāmun hiya ḥattā maṭlaʕi al-fajri

     It is all peace until the break of dawn.

4. any place that celestial bodies rise.
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 18:90:

     حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا بَلَغَ مَطۡلِعَ ٱلشَّمۡسِ وَجَدَهَا تَطۡلُعُ عَلَىٰ قَوۡمٖ لَّمۡ نَجۡعَل لَّهُم مِّن دُونِهَا سِتۡرٗا

     until he reached the rising ˹point˺ of the sun. He found it rising on a people for whom We had provided no shelter from it.

5. ladder, stairs

• → Persian: مطلع (matla')
• → Ottoman Turkish: مطلع (matla')
  • Turkish: matla

• IPA^(key): /matˤ.liʕ/

مَطْلِع • (maṭliʕ) m

1. verbal noun of طَلَعَ (ṭalaʕa) (form I)

Derived from the active participle of اِطَّلَعَ (iṭṭalaʕa, “to take insight”).

• IPA^(key): /mutˤ.tˤa.liʕ/

مُطَّلِع • (muṭṭaliʕ) (feminine مُطَّلِعَة (muṭṭaliʕa))

1. well-informed, acquainted with, cognizant of

Borrowed from Arabic مَطْلَع (maṭlaʕ).

مطلع • (matla') (plural مطلع‌ها (matla'-hâ))

1. the first line of a qasida or ghazal

   Antonym: مقطع (maqta')