طاعت

Arabic

Verb

طَاعَتْ • (ṭāʕat) (form I) /tˤaː.ʕat/

third-person feminine singular past active of طَاعَ (ṭāʕa)

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic طَاعَة (ṭāʕa).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /taː.ˈʔat/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɑː.ʔát̪]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɑːát̪]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɔːát̪]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɒː.ʔǽt̪ʰ]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɔ.ʔát̪]

Readings
Classical reading^?	tā'at
Dari reading^?	tā'at
Iranian reading^?	tâ'at
Tajik reading^?	to'at

Noun

طاعت • (tā'at / tâ'at) (Tajik spelling тоат)

worship, act of obedience to God
- c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 47”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[1]:
  ورای طاعت دیوانگان ز ما مطلب
  که شیخ مذهب ما عاقلی گنه دانست
  warā-yi tā'at-i dēwānagān zi mā ma-talab
  ki šayx-i mazhab-i mā āqilī gunah dānist
  Seek nothing from us beyond the madmen's acts of worship!
  For the teacher of our creed has deemed reason to be a sin.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “طاعت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim