تقلید

From Arabic تقليد (taqlīd).

تقلید • (taklid)

1. imitation, emulation
2. counterfeit

• Turkish: taklit

Borrowed from Arabic تَقْلِيد (taqlīd, “imitation”)

تقلید • (taqlīd / taġlid) (Tajik spelling тақлид)

1. imitation
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 484:

     ز آن که تقلید آفت هر نیکویی است
     که بود تقلید اگر کوه قوی است

     zi ān ki taqlīd āfat-i har nēkūyī-st
     kah buwad taqlīd agar kōh-i qawī-st

     Inasmuch as imitation is the bane of every good quality;
     imitation is (but) a straw, (even) if it is a mighty mountain.

2. mime, mimicry
3. (Islam, especially Shia Islam) emulation, deference (to the judgment of a religious authority)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “تقلید”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “تقلید”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

Borrowed from Classical Persian تقلید (taqlīd), from Arabic تَقْلِيد (taqlīd).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t̪əq.liːd̪/

تَقْلِید • (taqlīd) f (Hindi spelling तक़लीद)

1. imitation, representation
2. forgery
3. conformity, conformation
4. counterfeit

• “تقلید”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “تقلید”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.