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

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)

chastity; purity
― zan bâ 'esmat ― chaste woman
- late 14th century, Xāja Shams-ud-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī, “اگر آن ترک شیرازی به دست آرد دل ما را (Shirazi Turk)”, in دیوان حافظ [Divān of Ḥāfeẓ]:
  من از آن حسن روزافزون که یوسف داشت دانستم
  که عشق از پرده عصمت برون آرد زلیخا را
  man az ân hosn-e ruz-afzun ke yusof dâšt dânestam
  ke 'ešq az parde-ye 'esmat borun ârad zoleyxâ-râ
  I have learnt, from that daily-increasing beauty that Joseph had, that Love will bring Zoleykha out from behind the curtain of modesty.
(Islam) infallibility; protection from sin (e.g. of the Shi'a imams)

Derived terms

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

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