مذهب

Verbal noun and noun of place from the verb ذَهَبَ‎ (ḏahaba, “to go”), from the root ذ ه ب‎ (ḏ-h-b).

• IPA^(key): /mað.hab/

مَذْهَب • (maḏhab) m (plural مَذَاهِب‎ (maḏāhib))

1. verbal noun of ذَهَبَ‎ (ḏahaba) (form I)
2. going, leaving, departure
3. sect, denomination, doctrine, school of jurisprudence or thought

   ‏اَلْمَذْهَب الشَّافِعِيّ‎ ― al-maḏhab aš-šāfiʕiyy ― the Šāfiʿī school of jurisprudence

   ‏اَلْمَذْهَب السُّنِّيّ‎ ― al-maḏhab as-sunniyy ― the Sunnī sect

4. way out, escape
5. procedure, policy, manner
6. doctrine, teaching, belief, ideology, opinion, view
7. faith
8. religion, creed
9. course, school
10. way, movement, orientation

• → Azerbaijani: məzhəb
• → Chagatai: مذهب‎
  • Uyghur: مەزھەپ‎ (mez'hep)
  • Uzbek: mazhab
• → English: madhhab
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: मज़हब (mazhab)
  • Urdu: مذہب‎ (maẕhab)
• → Kazakh: мазһаб (mazhab)
• → Ottoman Turkish: مذهب‎ (mezheb)
  • Turkish: mezhep
• → Pashto: مذهب‎ (mazhab)
• → Persian: مذهب‎ (mazhab)
• → Punjabi: مَذْہَب‎ (maẕhab)
• → Turkmen: mezhep

Derived from the active participle of the verb ذَهَّبَ‎ (ḏahhaba, “to gild”), denominal verb from ذَهَب‎ (ḏahab, “gold”).

• IPA^(key): /mu.ðah.hib/

مُذَهِّب • (muḏahhib) (feminine مُذَهِّبَة‎ (muḏahhiba), masculine plural مُذَهِّبُونَ‎ (muḏahhibūna), feminine plural مُذَهِّبَات‎ (muḏahhibāt))

1. active participle of ذَهَّبَ‎ (ḏahhaba)

• → Ottoman Turkish: مذهب‎ (müzehhib)
  • Turkish: müzehhip

Derived from the passive participle of the verb ذَهَّبَ‎ (ḏahhaba, “to gild”), denominal verb from ذَهَب‎ (ḏahab, “gold”).

• IPA^(key): /mu.ðah.hab/

مُذَهَّب • (muḏahhab) (feminine مُذَهَّبَة‎ (muḏahhaba), masculine plural مُذَهَّبُونَ‎ (muḏahhabūna), feminine plural مُذَهَّبَات‎ (muḏahhabāt))

1. gilded

• → Ottoman Turkish: مذهب‎ (müzehheb)
  • Turkish: müzehhep

Derived from the active participle of the verb أَذْهَبَ‎ (ʔaḏhaba, “to gild”), denominal verb from ذَهَب‎ (ḏahab, “gold”).

• IPA^(key): /muð.hib/

مُذْهِب • (muḏhib) (feminine مُذْهِبَة‎ (muḏhiba), masculine plural مُذْهِبُونَ‎ (muḏhibūna), feminine plural مُذْهِبَات‎ (muḏhibāt))

1. active participle of أَذْهَبَ‎ (ʔaḏhaba)

Derived from the passive participle of the verb أَذْهَبَ‎ (ʔaḏhaba, “to gild”), denominal verb from ذَهَب‎ (ḏahab, “gold”).

• IPA^(key): /muð.hab/

مُذْهَب • (muḏhab) (feminine مُذْهَبَة‎ (muḏhaba), masculine plural مُذْهَبُونَ‎ (muḏhabūna), feminine plural مُذْهَبَات‎ (muḏhabāt))

1. gilded

Denominal verb from مَذْهَب‎ (maḏhab, “sect”).

• IPA^(key): /mað.ha.ba/

مَذْهَبَ • (maḏhaba) Iq, non-past يُمَذْهِبُ‎‎ (yumaḏhibu)

1. to cause to split into sects

From Arabic مَذْهَب‎ (maḏhab).

• IPA^(key): /maˈzab/
• IPA^(key): /mazˈhab/

مذهب • (mazhab) m

1. religion

Borrowed from Arabic مَذْهَب‎ (maḏhab).

مذهب • (mazhab) (plural مذاهب‎ (mazâheb) or مذهب‌ها‎ (mazhab-hâ))

1. religion

   Synonyms: دین‎ (din), کیش‎ (kiš)

   ‏مذهب شما چیه؟‎‎ ― mazhab-e šomâ či-ye? ― What's your religion?

2. sect, branch, creed (of a religion); school of jurisprudence or theology

   ‏مذهب اشعری‎ ― mazhab-e aš'ari ― Ash'arite creed

   ‏مذهب تشیع یکی از مذاهب اسلامی در نیجریه است.‎‎

   mazhab-e tašayyo' yeki az mazâheb-e eslâmi dar neyjeriye ast.

   The Shi'ite branch is one of the branches of Islam in Nigeria.

3. (figurative) creed; manner, practice, way
   • c. 1260, Saʿdī, “Ghazal 193”, in دیوان سعدی [The Divān of Saʿdī]‎:

     ‏عاقلان از بلا بپرهیزند
     مذهب عاشقان دگر باشد‎

     āqilān az balā bepurhēzand
     mazhab-i āšiqān digar bāšad

     Rational people will flee from pain,
     But the lovers' creed is otherwise.

     (Classical Persian transliteration.)

• مذهبی‎ (mazhabi)