ملکوت

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَلَكُوت (malakūt).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ma.la.ˈkuːt/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mä.lä.kʰúːt̪]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mä.lä.kʰúːt̪]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mä.lä.kʰút̪]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæ.læ.kʰúːt̪]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mä.lä.kʰút̪]

Readings
Classical reading^?	malakūt
Dari reading^?	malakūt
Iranian reading^?	malakut
Tajik reading^?	malakut

Noun

ملکوت • (malakut)

kingdom, dominion, reign
(Islam, Sufism) Malakut, a cosmic plane between the angelic and imaginal realms
- c. 1300, Humām-i Tabrīzī, “Ghazal 142”, in دیوان همام تبریزی‎^[1]:
  مرغ باغ ملکوتم نیم از عالم خاک
  دو سه روزی قفسی ساخته‌اند از بدنم
  murġ-i bāġ-i malakūt-am niyam az ālam-i xāk
  du si rōzē qafasē saxta-and az badan-am
  I am a bird from the garden of malakūt, not from the world of earth!
  They [only] built a cage out of my body for two or three days.