زلیخا
Pashto
Etymology
From Arabic زليخا (“brilliant”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zʊ.ləi.xa/
- IPA(key): /zʊ.lai.xa/
Proper noun
زلیخا • (Zulëixa) f
- (religion) Hazrat Zuleikha
- a female given name
Persian
Etymology
From Arabic زُلَيْخَا (zulayḵā).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /zulajxɑː/
- (Dari Persian) IPA(key): /zʊlajxɑː/
- (Iranian Persian) IPA(key): /zolejxɒː/
- (Tajik) IPA(key): /zulajxɔ/
Proper noun
زُلِیخا • (zoleyxâ)
- The name popularly given to Potiphar's wife, a Biblical and Quranic figure who falls in love with the enslaved Joseph and attempts to seduce him; a common character in Persian poetry.
- 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]:
- من از آن حسن روزافزون که یوسف داشت دانستم، که عشق از پرده عصمت برون آرد زلیخا را
- man az ân hosn-e ruz-afzun ke yusof dâšt dânestam, ke 'ešq az parde-ye 'esmat borun ârad zoleyxâ-râ
- I have learnt, from that daily-increasing beauty that Joseph had, that Love will bring Zoleykha out from behind the curtain of modesty.
- c. 1650, Muḥammad Ṭāhir Ğanī Kašmīrī, Mufti Mudasir Farooqi & Nusrat Bazaz, transl., دیوان [Divān]:
- غنی روز سیاه پیر کنعان را تماشا کن، که نور دیده اش روشن کرد چشم زلیخا را.
- ğani ruz-e siyâh-e pir-e kan'ân-râ tamâšâ kon, ke nur-e dide-aš rowšan kard čašm-e zoleyxâ-râ.
- Ghani, behold the darkened days of the old man of Canaan as the light of his eyes now those of Zuleikha.
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- a female given name from Arabic
See also
- یوسف (yusof, “Joseph”)
- یعقوب (ya'qub, “Jacob”)