عصمت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic عِصْمَة (ʕiṣma).

Proper noun

عصمت • (Ismet)

a male given name from Arabic, notably belonging to Ismet Inonu, second president of Turkey.

Descendants

Turkish: İsmet
→ Albanian: Ismet
→ Serbo-Croatian: Ismet

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عِصْمَة (ʕiṣma).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔis.ˈmat/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪs.mǽt̪]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɪs.mǽt̪]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔis.mǽt̪]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔes.mǽt̪]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔis.mǽt̪]

Readings
Classical reading^?	ismat
Dari reading^?	ismat
Iranian reading^?	esmat
Tajik reading^?	ismat

Noun


Iranian Persian	عصمت
Dari	عصمت
Tajik	исмат

عصمت • (esmat)

(Islam) infallibility; protection from sin (e.g. of the Shi'a imams)
(archaic) chastity; purity
― zan bâ esmat ― chaste woman
- c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 3”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[1]:
  من از آن حسن روزافزون که یوسف داشت دانستم
  که عشق از پرده عصمت برون آرد زلیخا را
  man az ān husn-i rōz-afzūn ki yūsuf dāšt dānistam
  ki išq az parda-yi ismat birūn ārad zulayxā rā
  I have learnt, from that daily-increasing beauty that Joseph had,
  That Love will bring Zoleykha out from behind the curtain of modesty.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

بی‌عصمت (bi-esmat, “unchaste”)
عصمتی (esmati, “relating to chastity”)
عصمت‌پناه (esmat-panâh, “chaste woman”, literally “sanctuary of chastity”)