تلبیس

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَلْبِيس (talbīs).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /tal.ˈbiːs/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäl.biːs]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäl.biːs]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäl.bis]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰæl.biːs]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäl.bis]

Readings
Classical reading^?	talbīs
Dari reading^?	talbīs
Iranian reading^?	talbis
Tajik reading^?	talbis


Iranian Persian	تلبیس
Dari	تلبیس
Tajik	таблис

Noun

تلبیس • (tablis) (plural تلبیسات (tablisât))

fraud, imposture
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 254:
  هر که در دنیا خورد تلبیس دیو
  و ز عدوی دوست رو تعظیم و ریو
  har ki dar dunyā xwarad tablīs-i dēw
  u za 'adū-i dōst rō ta'zīm u rēw
  Whoever swallows the Devil's imposture in this world
  and (swallows) veneration and deceit from the foe that has the face (semblance) of a friend
guile, disguise

References

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