تاریک

From Middle Persian [Term?] (/⁠tārīk⁠/), from [Term?] (/⁠tār⁠/, “darkness”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *témHos (whence modern تار (târ, “dark, faint”)), + Middle Persian [Term?] (/⁠-īk⁠/, adjective-deriving suffix) (whence modern ی (-i)). One of a few adjectives that has preserved the final -g/k phoneme and did not undergo the regular sound change from Middle Persian to Modern Persian. Others include باریک (bârik, “slender”) and نزدیک (nazdik, “near”).

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تاریک • (târik) (comparative تاریک‌تَر (târik-tar), superlative تاریک‌تَرین (târik-tarin))

1. dark; dim

   Antonym: روشن (rowšan)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3660:

     چون شما تاریک بودم در نهاد
     وحی خورشیدم چنین نوری بداد

     čōn šumā tārīk būdam dar nihād
     wahī-i xwaršēd-am čunīn nūrī bi-dād

     Like you, I was dark in my nature:
     the Sun's revelation gave me such a light as this.

2. sombre

   Antonym: روشن (rowšan)

• تار (târ)

Borrowed from Classical Persian تاریک (tārīk).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t̪ɑː.ɾiːk/

تاریک • (tārīk) (Hindi spelling तारीक)

1. dark

• اندھیرا (andherā)

• تاریکی (tārīkī, “darkness”)