ميثاق

Arabic

Root
و ث ق (w-ṯ-q)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miː.θaːq/

Noun

مِيثَاق • (mīṯāq) m (plural مَوَاثِيق (mawāṯīq))

  1. charter
  2. treaty
  3. covenant
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:63:
      وَإِذْ أَخَذْنَا مِيثَاقَكُمْ وَرَفَعْنَا فَوْقَكُمُ الطُّورَ خُذُوا مَا آتَيْنَاكُم بِقُوَّةٍ وَاذْكُرُوا مَا فِيهِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ
      waʔiḏ ʔaḵaḏnā mīṯāqakum warafaʕnā fawqakumu ṭ-ṭūra ḵuḏū mā ʔātaynākum biquwwatin wāḏkurū mā fīhi laʕallakum tattaqūna
      And [recall] when We took your covenant, [O Children of Israel, to abide by the Torah] and We raised over you the mount, [saying], "Take what We have given you with determination and remember what is in it that perhaps you may become righteous."

Declension

References

  • Baalbaki, Rohi (1995) “ميثاق”, in Al-Mawrid: A Modern Arabic-English Dictionary, 7th edition, Beirut: Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin, →ISBN
  • Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “ميثاق”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “ميثاق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
  • Wehr, Hans (1960) “ميثاق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz
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