مصلحة

Arabic

Root
ص ل ح‎ (ṣ-l-ḥ)

Etymology

From the root ص ل ح‎ (ṣ-l-ḥ).

Pronunciation

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Noun

مَصْلَحَة • (maṣlaḥa) f (plural مَصَالِح‎ (maṣāliḥ))

verbal noun of صَلَحَ‎ (ṣalaḥa) (form I)
anything promoting, salutary, advantageous
advantage
business, undertaking, enterprise
benevolence
(in the plural) weal, welfare (of a country, etc.)

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Descendants

Maltese: mselħa
→ Azerbaijani: məsləhət
→ Fula: maslaha
→ Kazakh: мәслихат (mäslixat)
→ Malay: maslahat
→ Ottoman Turkish: مصلحت‎
- Turkish: maslahat
- → Armenian: մասլահաթ (maslahatʿ)
→ Persian: مصلحت‎
- → Urdu: مصالحہ‎
  - → Ushojo: مصالحہ‎
→ Swahili: maslahi
→ Uyghur: مەسلىھەت‎‎ (meslihet‎)
→ Uzbek: maslahat

References

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “مصلحة”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

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