عشق

• IPA^(key): /ʕiʃq/

عِشْق • (ʕišq) m

1. verbal noun of عَشِقَ (ʕašiqa) (form I)
2. liking with desire(lust), being in love; romantic love (particularly when very strong)

   عِشْقِي لَكِ كَالْوَرْدِ فِي حَدِيقَةِ قَلْبِي، يَنْمُو بِجَمَالٍ وَرَائِحَةٍ تَمْلَأ كُلِّ الزَّوَايَا.

   ʕišqī laki kālwardi fī ḥadīqati qalbī, yanmū bijamālin warāʔiḥatin tamlaʔ kulli z-zawāyā.

   My love for you is like a rose in the garden of my heart, it grows with beauty and a fragrance that fills every corner.

   • 10th century, Al-Mutanabbi, ديوان أبي الطيب المتنبي, volume 2:

     لِعَيْنَيْكِ مَا يَلْقَى ٱلْفُؤَادُ وَمَا لَقِي / وَلِلْحُبِّ مَا لَمْ يَبْقَ مِنِّي وَمَا بَقِي / وَمَا كُنْتُ مِِمَّنْ يَدْخُلُ ٱلْعِشْقُ قَلْبَهُ / وَلَٰكِنَّ مَنْ يُبْصِرْ جُفُونَكِ يَعْشَقِ

     liʕaynayki mā yalqā l-fuʔādu wamā laqī / walilḥubbi mā lam yabqa minnī wamā baqī / wamā kuntu miimman yadḵulu l-ʕišqu qalbahu / walākinna man yubṣir jufūnaki yaʕšaqi

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3. passion

• Maltese: għaxqa
• → Azerbaijani: eşq
• → Bashkir: ғишыҡ (ğişıq)
• → Ottoman Turkish: عشق (ʿaşḳ)

  > Turkish: aşk (inherited)

  • → Macedonian: ашик (ašik)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: а̀шик／àšik
• → Classical Persian: عِشْق ('išq)
  • → Hindustani
    • Hindi: इश्क़ (iśq)
    • Urdu: عِشْق ('iśq)
  • → Chagatai:
    • Uyghur: ئىشق (ishq)
    • Uzbek: ishq

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.ʃi.qa/

عَشِقَ • (ʕašiqa) I, non-past يَعْشَقُ‎ (yaʕšaqu)

1. to fall in love; to love excessively; to adore
   • 10th century, Al-Mutanabbi, ديوان أبي الطيب المتنبي, volume 2:

     لِعَيْنَيْكِ مَا يَلْقَى ٱلْفُؤَادُ وَمَا لَقِي / وَلِلْحُبِّ مَا لَمْ يَبْقَ مِنِّي وَمَا بَقِي / وَمَا كُنْتُ مِِمَّنْ يَدْخُلُ ٱلْعِشْقُ قَلْبَهُ / وَلَٰكِنَّ مَنْ يُبْصِرْ جُفُونَكِ يَعْشَقِ

     liʕaynayki mā yalqā l-fuʔādu wamā laqī / walilḥubbi mā lam yabqa minnī wamā baqī / wamā kuntu miimman yadḵulu l-ʕišqu qalbahu / walākinna man yubṣir jufūnaki yaʕšaqi

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• IPA^(key): /ʕaʃ.ʃa.qa/

عَشَّقَ • (ʕaššaqa) II, non-past يُعَشِّقُ‎ (yuʕaššiqu)

1. to join
2. to connect

From Arabic عِشْق (ʕišq).

• IPA^(key): /ʕiʃɡ/, [ʕɪʃɡ]

عِشْق • (ʕišg) m

1. liking with desire(lust), being in love; romantic love (particularly when very strong)
2. passion

From Arabic عَشِقَ (ʕašiqa).

• IPA^(key): /ʕi.ʃiɡ/, [ʕɪʃɪɡ]

عِشِق • (ʕišig) I (non-past يِعْشَق (yiʕšag))

1. to fall in love; to love excessively; to adore

From Arabic عَشَّقَ (ʕaššaqa).

• IPA^(key): /ʕaʃ.ʃaɡ/

عَشَّق • (ʕaššag) II (non-past يِعَشِّق (yiʕaššig))

1. to connect (used with vehicle's gear)

Borrowed from Arabic عِشْق (ʕišq, “love, passion”).

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عِشْق • ('ešq) (plural عشق‌ها ('ešq-hâ))

1. love (romantic emotion); passion

   دَرْدِ عِشْق ― dard-e 'ešq ― pain of love

   • 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]:

     ز عشق ناتمام ما جمال یار مستغنی است

     ze 'ešq-e nâtamâm-e mâ jamâl-e yâr mostağni ast

     Of my imperfect love the glory of the beloved is independent

   • c. 1650, Čandra Bhān, دیوان برهمن [The Brahman's divan]:

     چو درد عشق رسد خواهش دوا کفر است

     čo dard-e 'ešq rasad xâheš-e davâ kofr ast

     When the pain of love arrives, the desire for medicine is infidelity

   • 1915, محمود طرزی (Mahmud Tarzi), translated by Wali Ahmadi (Modern Persian Literature in Afghanistan), پراکنده: مجموعه اشعار [Collection of Scatted Poems], Kabul: 'Ināyat Press:

     هر کس که دل به عشق وطن کرد مبتلا، ایمان و عقل و دین نشود هیچ از و جدا.

     har kas ke del be 'ešq-e vatan kard mobtalâ, imân o 'aql o din na-šavad hič az u jodâ.

     That one who is ever consumed by love for his homeland: faith, reason, and belief shall never abandon him.

2. one's love, the beloved

   عِشْقِ مَن ― 'ešq-e man ― my love

• Unlike the Arabic word, Persian عشق does not have an overtone of “excessive” or “crazy love”.

• → Hindustani
  • Hindi: इश्क़ (iśq)
  • Urdu: عِشْق ('iśq)
• → Chagatai:
  • Uyghur: ئىشق (ishq)
  • Uzbek: ishq

From Arabic عَشِقَ (ʕašiqa).

• IPA^(key): (Urban) /ʕi.ʃiʔ/, [ˈʕi.ʃɪʔ]
• IPA^(key): (Bedouin) /ʕi.ʃiɡ/, [ˈʕi.ʃɪɡ]

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عشق • (ʕišiʔ) I (present بعشق (biʕšaʔ))

1. to fall in love

   Synonym: وقع بغرام (wiʔiʕ bi-ḡarām)

2. to absorb a smell (of fabric)

Learned borrowing from Arabic عِشْق (ʕišq).

• IPA^(key): /ʕiʃq/, [ʕɪʃq]

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عشق • (ʕišq) m

1. love, passion, infatuation

   Synonym: غرام (ḡarām)

• حبّ (ḥabb, “love”), محبّة (maḥabbe, “love, affection”)

Borrowed from Classical Persian عشق (išq), from Arabic عِشْق (ʕišq, “love, passion”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)ɪʃq/

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃq

عِشْق • ('iśq) m (Hindi spelling इश्क़)

1. love

   Synonyms: پْیار (pyār), مُحَبَّت (muhabbat), پْریم (prem)

   تیرے عشق میں ہم نے کیا کیا نہ دیکھا؟

   tere iśq mẽ ham ne kyā kyā na dekhā?

   What did I not see in your love?

2. (figuratively) passion

   Synonym: جَذْبَہ (jazba)

• “عشق”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “عشق”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.