تکامل

Persian

Borrowed from Arabic تَكَامُل (takāmul).

Sense of "evolution": semantic loan from Ottoman Turkish تكامل (tekâmül), itself replaced in Turkish by the language reform.

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.kʰɑː.mʊl]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.kʰɑː.mʊl]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰä.kʰɔː.mul̥]

تکامل • (takâmol)

evolution
Synonym: فرگشت (fargašt)

takâmol-e nahang
evolution of the whale
(literary) perfectness; perfection
- c. 1599, Bahāʾ al‐Dīn ʿĀmilī, کشکول‎^[1]:
  این که معاد تنها روحانی است. این گفته از آن فلاسفه‌ی الهی است که معتقدند انسان فقط نفسی ناطق است و بدن آلتی بیش نیست که نفس ناطق آن را به کار می‌برد و جهت تکامل جوهر خویش بکار می گیرد.
  īn ki ma'ād tanhā rūhānī ast. īn gufta az ān-i falāsifa-yi ilahī ast ki mu'taqid-and insān faqat nafsē nātiq ast u badan ālatē bēš nēst ki nafs-i nātiq ān rā ba kār mē-barad u jihat-i takāmul-i jawhar-i xwēš ba kār mē-gīrad.
  That the Resurrection is only spiritual. This saying is from the divine philosophers who believe that the human being is only a rational self, and that the body is no more than a device for the rational self to use and to apply for the sake of perfecting its own essence.
  (Classical Persian romanization)