فیلسوف

See also: فيلسوف

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فَيْلَسُوف (faylasūf), from Ancient Greek φιλόσοφος (philósophos).

The Iranian pronunciation was likely influenced by French philosophe.

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /faj.la.ˈsuːf/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [fäj.lä.súːf]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [fäj.lä.súːf]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [fäj.lä.súf]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [fiːl.súːf], [fiː.lo.sóf]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [fäj.lä.súf]

Readings
Classical reading^?	faylasūf
Dari reading^?	faylasūf
Iranian reading^?	filsuf, filosof
Tajik reading^?	faylasuf

Noun


Iranian Persian	فیلسوف
Dari	فیلسوف
Tajik	файласуф

فیلسوف • (filsuf) (plural فیلسوفان, or فیلسوف‌ها, or فلاسفه (falâsefe))

philosopher
- 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)

Descendants

Tajik: файласуф (faylasuf)
→ Gujarati: ફૈલસૂફ (phailsūph)
→ Chagatai:
- Uyghur: پەيلاسوپ (peylasop)
- Uzbek: faylasuf

Further reading

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “فیلسوف”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
“فیلسوف”, in قاموس کبیر افغانستان [qāmūs-i kabīr-i afġānistān, The Great Dictionary of Afghanistan] (in Persian), Afghan Dictionary, 2023
“فیلسوف”, in The Wilson English - Dari Dictionary (Webonary), SIL International, 2013