علت
Arabic
Ottoman Turkish
Descendants
- Turkish: illet
Further reading
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “illet”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
Persian
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ʔil.lat]
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ʔɪl.lät̪]
- (Kabuli) IPA(key): [ʔɪl.lät̪]
- (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [ʔil.lät̪]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ʔel.læt̪]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ʔil.lät̪]
Readings | |
---|---|
Classical reading? | illat |
Dari reading? | illat |
Iranian reading? | ellat |
Tajik reading? | illat |
Noun
عِلَّت • ('ellat) (plural عِلَل ('elal) or عِلَّتها ('ellat-hâ))
- cause, reason
- (archaic) disease
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume V, verse 3629:
- که طمع لاغر کند زرد و ذلیل
نیست او از علت ابدان علیل- ke tama' lâğar konad zard o zalil
nist u az 'ellat-e abdân 'alil - For [mere] hope makes him lean, pale, and wretched: he is not ill with bodily ailment.
- ke tama' lâğar konad zard o zalil
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