طبیعت

Borrowed from Arabic طَبِيعَة (ṭabīʕa, “nature, quality, essence”).

طبیعت • (tabiʼat)

1. nature, the essential or innate qualities and characteristics of a person or thing

   Synonym: طبع (tabʼ)

2. nature, the totality of all things in the physical universe and their order

   Synonym: یارادلش (yaradılış)

3. good taste, refinement, natural elegance in behaviour, manner, or taste

• Turkish: tabiat
• → Romanian: tabiet

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tabiat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4520
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “tabîat”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1209
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طبیعت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 800
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Natura”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1119
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طبیعت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3089
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tabiat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طبیعت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1233

Borrowed from Arabic طَبِيعَة (ṭabīʕa).

طَبیعَت • (tabi'at)

1. nature; temperament; disposition; character

   Synonym: نهاد (nahâd)

   طبیعت انسانی ― tabi'at-e ensâni ― human nature

2. nature; natural world

   Synonym: زاستار (zâstâr)

   • 1963, Forugh Farrokhzad, “معشوق من”, in تولدی دیگر [Another Birth]‎^[6]:

     معشوق من
     همچون طبیعت
     مفهوم ناگزیر صریحی دارد
     او با شکست من
     قانون صادقانهٔ قدرت را
     تأیید میکند

     ma'šuq-e man
     hamčon tabi'at
     mafhum-e nâgozir-e sarihi dârad
     u bâ šekast-e man
     qânun-e sâdeqâne-ye qodrat râ
     ta'yid mi-konad

     Just like nature
     My lover
     Has a clear, indispensable meaning
     By subjugating me, he
     Gives the proof
     To the honest law of force

• → Bashkir: тәбиғәт (təbiğət)
• → Bengali: তবিয়ত (tobiyot)
• → Chagatai: طبیعت
  • Uyghur: تەبىئەت (tebi'et), تەبىەت (tebiet)
  • Uzbek: tabiat
• → Gujarati: તબિયત (tabiyat), તબીઅત (tabīat)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: तबीयत (tabīyat)

  Urdu: طَبِیعَت (tabī'at)

• → Kyrgyz: табият (tabiyat)
• → Kazakh: табиғат (tabiğat)
• → Tatar: табигать (tabigat’)
• → Turkmen: tebigat

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “طبیعت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “طبیعت”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

Borrowed from Classical Persian طَبِیعَت (tabī'at), borrowed from Arabic طَبِيعَة (ṭabīʕa).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t̪ə.biː.(ʔ)ət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪

طَبِیعَت • (tabī'at) f (Hindi spelling तबियत)

1. temperament, mind, disposition, mood, character, behavior
2. (by extension) health, condition, state, constitution

   Synonym: صِحَت (sihat)

   آپ کی طَبِیعَت کَیسی ہَے؟

   āp kī tabī'at kaisī hai?

   How are you feeling?

   (literally, “How is your condition?”)

3. nature, intrinsic quality
4. habit
5. (rare) choice

• طَبِیعی (tabī'ī)
• طَبِیعَت ناساز ہونا (tabī'at nāsāz honā, “to become indisposed, to be ill, to be sick”)
• طَبِیعَت خَراب ہونا (tabī'at xarāb honā, “to become ill, to become sick”)

• “طبیعت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “طبیعت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.