ظلمت
Arabic
Verb
ظلمت (form I)
- ظَلَمْتُ (ẓalamtu) /ðˤa.lam.tu/: first-person singular past active of ظَلَمَ (ẓalama)
- ظَلَمْتَ (ẓalamta) /ðˤa.lam.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of ظَلَمَ (ẓalama)
- ظَلَمْتِ (ẓalamti) /ðˤa.lam.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of ظَلَمَ (ẓalama)
- ظَلَمَتْ (ẓalamat) /ðˤa.la.mat/: third-person feminine singular past active of ظَلَمَ (ẓalama)
- ظُلِمْتُ (ẓulimtu) /ðˤu.lim.tu/: first-person singular past passive of ظَلَمَ (ẓalama)
- ظُلِمْتَ (ẓulimta) /ðˤu.lim.ta/: second-person masculine singular past passive of ظَلَمَ (ẓalama)
- ظُلِمْتِ (ẓulimti) /ðˤu.lim.ti/: second-person feminine singular past passive of ظَلَمَ (ẓalama)
- ظُلِمَتْ (ẓulimat) /ðˤu.li.mat/: third-person feminine singular past passive of ظَلَمَ (ẓalama)
- ظَلِمْتُ (ẓalimtu) /ðˤa.lim.tu/: first-person singular past active of ظَلِمَ (ẓalima)
- ظَلِمْتَ (ẓalimta) /ðˤa.lim.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of ظَلِمَ (ẓalima)
- ظَلِمْتِ (ẓalimti) /ðˤa.lim.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of ظَلِمَ (ẓalima)
- ظَلِمَتْ (ẓalimat) /ðˤa.li.mat/: third-person feminine singular past active of ظَلِمَ (ẓalima)
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic ظُلْمَة (“darkness”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /zul.ˈmat/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [zʊl.mät̪]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [zol.mæt̪]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [zul.mät̪]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | zulmat |
| Dari reading? | zulmat |
| Iranian reading? | zolmat |
| Tajik reading? | zulmat |
| Dari | ظلمت |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | зулмат |
Noun
ظلمت • (zolmat) (plural ظلمات (zolomât))
- obscurity, darkness
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3863:
- گر چه ظلمت آمد آن نوم و سبات
نی درون ظلمت است آب حیات- gar či zulmat āmad ān nawm u subāt
nay dirūn zulmat ast āb-i hayāt - Although that sleep and rest are darkness,
is not the Water of Life within the darkness?
- gar či zulmat āmad ān nawm u subāt
References
Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “ظلمت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim