دقیق

See also: دقيق and دفيف

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دَقِيق (daqīq).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /da.ˈqiːq/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ä.qíːq]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪ä.qíːq]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪ä.qíq]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪æ.ʁíːɢ̥]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ä.qíq]

Readings
Classical reading^?	daqīq
Dari reading^?	daqīq
Iranian reading^?	daġiġ
Tajik reading^?	daqiq

Adjective


Iranian Persian	دقیق
Dari	دقیق
Tajik	дақиқ

دقیق • (daqiq)

exact, precise, punctual
delicate, minute, subtle
- c. 1720, 'Abd al-Qādir Bēdil, “Ghazal 1343”, in دیوان بیدل [The Divān of Bēdil]‎^[1]:
  بیدل افکار دقیق آیینهٔ تخقیق نیست
  ذره‌ها خورشید را در چشم روزن دیده‌اند
  bēdil afkār-i daqīq āyina-yi tahqīq nēst
  zarrā-hā xwaršēd rā dar čašm-i rōzan dīda-and
  Bēdil, delicate thoughts are not a mirror for verifying truth!
  The motes of dust have seen the sun through the eye of the peephole.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Related terms

دقیقانه (daqiqâne, “carefully, exactly”)
دقیقه (daqiqe, “minute (measure of time)”)