تخت

Borrowed from Persian تخت (taxt).

• IPA^(key): /taxt/

تَخْت • (taḵt) m (plural تُخُوت (tuḵūt))

1. bed
2. couch, sofa
3. bench

   تَخْتُ الْمُلْك ― taḵtu al-mulk ― royal throne

4. seat, capital
5. chest, box, case
6. wardrobe
7. platform, dais
8. band, orchestra

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “تخت”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

تخت

1. Arabic spelling of təxt

Borrowed from Persian تخت.

تخت (taḫt) (plural تختلار)

1. throne

• Uyghur: تەخت (text)
• Uzbek: taxt

• Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “تخت”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎^[1] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale

From Arabic تَخْت (taḵt).

• IPA^(key): /taxᵊt/

تخت • (taḵt) m (plural تخوتة (tḵūte))

1. bed

Borrowed from Persian تخت (taxt).

تخت • (taht)

1. any raised structure used for sitting or reclining on, such as a bench, sofa or bier, but especially:
   1. throne, an impressive seat used by a monarch

      Synonyms: اَوْرَنْك (evrenk), كُرْسِی (kürsî)

• Turkish: taht
• → Romanian: taht, taft
• → Serbo-Croatian: taht, тахт

Borrowed from Persian تخت (taxt).

تخت • (taxt) m

1. throne

• Bellew, Henry Walter (1867) “تخت”, in A Dictionary of the Pukkhto or Pukshto Language‎^[2], London: Allen, page 34

From Middle Persian [script needed] (tʾht' /⁠taxt⁠/), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“to cover”). Compare Central Kurdish تات (tat).

تخت • (taxt)

1. flat

تخت • (taxt) (plural تخت‌ها)

1. throne
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 1532:

     این محبت هم نتیجهی دانش است
     کی گزافه بر چنین تختی نشست

     īn mahabbat ham natīja-i dāniš ast
     kī gazāfa bar čunīn taxt-ē nišast

     This love, moreover, is the result of knowledge:
     who (ever) sat in foolishness on such a throne?

2. capital
3. seat
4. sofa
5. bed

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “تخت”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

Borrowed from Classical Persian تَخْت (taxt).

تَخْت • (taxt) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਤਖ਼ਤ)

1. throne

   Synonym: اَوْرَنْگ (aurang)

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “تخت”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Borrowed from Classical Persian تخت (taxt).

تَخْتُ • (taxtu) m (Devanagari तख़्तु)

1. throne

• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “تَخْتُ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
• “تخت”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938

From Arabic تَخْت (taḵt).

• IPA^(key): /taxt/, [ˈta.x(ɪ)t]

• Audio (Ramallah):

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تخت • (taḵt) m (plural تخوت (tḵūt) or تخوتة (tḵūte))

1. bed

   Synonym: فرشة (farše)

Borrowed from Classical Persian تخت (taxt).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t̪əxt̪/

تَخْت • (taxt) m (Hindi spelling तख़्त)

1. throne

   Synonym: اَوْرَنْگ (aurang)

• Platts, John T. (1884) “تخت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “تخت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.