توفیق

See also: توفيق

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَوْفِيق (tawfīq).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /taw.ˈfiːq/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäw.fíːq]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäw.fíːq]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäw.fíq]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰow.fíːɢ̥]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäw.fíq]

Readings
Classical reading^?	tawfīq
Dari reading^?	tawfīq
Iranian reading^?	towfiġ
Tajik reading^?	tavfiq

Noun

توفیق • (towfiq)

grace, favor; (especially) divine grace, God's grace
Synonym: لطف (lotf)
- c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 107:
  ما بخود پا ننهادیم درین ره هرگز
  همه جا مرشد توفیق بود رهبر ما
  mā ba-xwad pā nanihādēm dar īn rah hargiz
  hama jā muršid-i tawfīq būd rahbar-i mā
  I have never set foot on this road on my own;
  Everywhere, the spiritual master of divine grace was my guide.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)
success
Synonym: موفقیت (movafaqiyyat)

Further reading

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