تقوی

Persian

Alternative forms

تقوا (taqvâ)

Etymology

From Arabic تَقْوَى (taqwā).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /taq.ˈwaː/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäq.wɑ́ː]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäq.wɑ́ː]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäq.wɔ́ː]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰæʁ.vɒ́ː]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäq.vɔ́]

Readings
Classical reading^?	taqwā
Dari reading^?	taqwā
Iranian reading^?	taġvâ
Tajik reading^?	taqvo


Iranian Persian	تقوا
Dari	تقوا
Tajik	тақво

Noun

تقوی • (taqvâ)

virtue
piety
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3705:
  چون که هیزم باز گیری نار مرد
  ز انکه تقوی آب سوی نار برد
  čōn ki hēzum bāz gīrī nār murd
  za anki taqwā āb sōy-i nār burd
  When thou withholdest the faggots, the fire dies out,
  because fear of God [piety] carries water to the fire.

References

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