مخلوق

Arabic

Root
خ ل ق (ḵ-l-q)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /max.luːq/
    • (Hijazi) IPA(key): /max.luːɡ/

Participle

مَخْلُوق • (maḵlūq) (feminine مَخْلُوقَة (maḵlūqa), masculine plural مَخْلُوقُونَ (maḵlūqūna), feminine plural مَخْلُوقَات (maḵlūqāt))

  1. passive participle of خَلَقَ (ḵalaqa)

Declension

Noun

مَخْلُوق • (maḵlūq) m (plural مَخْلُوقَات (maḵlūqāt))

  1. creature

Declension

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: məxluq
  • Persian: مخلوق (maxluq)
  • Bengali: মখলুক (mokholuk)
  • Hindi: मख़्लूक़ (maxlūq)
  • Indonesian: makhluk
  • Kazakh: мақұлық (maqūlyq)
  • Kyrgyz: макулук (makuluk)
  • Malay: makhluk
  • Northern Kurdish: mexlûq
  • Ottoman Turkish: مخلوق (maḫluḳ)
    Turkish: mahluk
  • Pashto: مخلوق (maxlúq)
  • Tajik: махлуқ (maxluq)
  • Tatar: мәхлүк (mäxlük)
  • Tausug: mahluk
  • Turkmen: mahluk
  • Uyghur: مەخلۇق (mexluq)
  • Urdu: مخلوق (maxlūq)
  • Uzbek: maxluq

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَخْلُوق (maḵlūq).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [mäx.lúːq]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [mäx.lúːq]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [mäx.lúq]

Readings
Classical reading? maxlūq
Dari reading? maxlūq
Iranian reading? maxluğ
Tajik reading? maxluq

Noun

Dari مخلوق
Iranian Persian
Tajik махлуқ

مخلوق • (maxluq)

  1. creature, creation (something created)
    • c. 1390, Hafez, “Ghazal 489”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divan of Hafez]:
      ای عنصر تو مخلوق از کیمیای عزت
      و ای دولت تو ایمن از وصمت تباهی
      ay unsur-i tu maxlūq az kīmīyā-yi izzat
      u ey dawlat-i tu ēman az wasmat-i tabāhī
      O you whose elements are a creation from the elixir of glory,
      O you whose good fortune is secure from the sin of devastation.
      (Classical Persian romanization)

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