مسلک

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَسْلَك (maslak)

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? maslak
Dari reading? maslak
Iranian reading? maslak
Tajik reading? maslak

Noun

Dari مسلک
Iranian Persian
Tajik маслак

مسلک • (maslak) (plural مسالک (masālek))

  1. way, path (especially religious)
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3086:
      هر نبی و هر ولی را مسلکی است
      لیک تا حق می‌‌برد جمله یکی است
      har nabī u har walī rā maslakē ast
      lēk tā haq mē-barad jumla yakē ast
      Every prophet and every saint hath a way (of religious doctrine and practice)
      but it leads to God: all (the ways) are (really) one.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  2. method, manner
  3. policy, course, program, principle

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