مذهب

Verbal noun and noun of place from the verb ذَهَبَ (ḏahaba, “to go”).

• 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
• → Japanese: マズハブ (mazuhabu)

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?

   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 299”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎:

     چه دوزخی، چه بهشتی، چه آدمی، چه پری
     به مذهب همه کفر طریقت است امساک

     či dōžax⁠ī, či bihištī, či ādamī, či parī
     ba mazhab-i hama kufr-i tarīqat ast imsāk

     Whether among the people of Hell or of Heaven, whether among mankind or the fairies,
     In everyone's religion, stinginess is infidelity to God's path.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

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)