مثال

From the root م ث ل (m-ṯ-l). Compare Hebrew מָשָׁל (“example, allegory”).

• IPA^(key): /mi.θaːl/

مِثَال • (miṯāl) m (plural أَمْثِلَة (ʔamṯila) or مُثُل (muṯul) or مُثْل (muṯl))

1. verbal noun of مَاثَلَ (māṯala) (form III)
2. resemblance, anything equal or similar
3. image, type, model, example, specimen
4. pattern, standard
5. form, formula, formulary
6. simile, allegory, parable, fable, tale
7. vision in a dream
8. manner, method
9. definite quantity
10. order, command, written order
11. retaliation
12. (grammar) assimilated verb (beginning with و (w) or ي (y))
13. bed, carpet

• Hijazi Arabic: مثال (miṯāl)
• → Avar: мисал (misal)
• → Azerbaijani: misal
• → Bashkir: миҫал (miśal)
• → Baluchi: مثال (misál)
• → Crimean Tatar: misal
• → Indonesian: misal
• → Kazakh: мысал (mysal)
• → Kurdish:
  • Northern Kurdish: mîsal
• → Kyrgyz: мисал (misal)
• → Lezgi: мисал (misal)
• → Malay: misal
• → Ottoman Turkish: مثال (misâl)
  • > Turkish: misal (inherited)
• → Classical Persian: مِثَال (misāl)
  • → Pashto: مِثال
  • → Punjabi:
    • Gurmukhi script: ਮਿਸਾਲ (misāl)
    • Shahmukhi script: مِثال (mis̱āl)
  • → Hindustani:
    • Hindi: मिसाल (misāl)
    • Urdu: مِثال (mis̱āl)
• → Tatar: мисал (misal), misal
• → Turkmen: mysal
• → Uyghur: مىسال (misal)
• → Uzbek: misol

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “مثال”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “مثل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From Arabic مِثَال (miṯāl).

مثال • (misál)

1. example

• نمونہ (namuna)

Root
م ث ل
1 term

From Arabic مِثَال (miṯāl).

• IPA^(key): /miˈθaːl/, [mɪˈθaːl]
  • IPA^(key): /miˈsaːl/, [mɪˈsaːl] (speakers with full /θ/ and /s/ merger)

مثال • (miṯāl) m (plural أمثلة (ʔamṯila))

1. example, model, specimen

• مَثَل (maṯal, “proverb, saying”)

Borrowed from Arabic مِثَال (miṯāl).

Readings
Classical reading?	misāl
Dari reading?	misāl
Iranian reading?	mesâl
Tajik reading?	misol

• Audio (Iran):

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Dari	مثال
Iranian Persian
Tajik	мисол

مِثال • (mesâl) (plural مثال‌ها (mesâl-hâ))

1. example

   Synonym: نمونه (nemune)

   برای مثال ― barâ-ye mesâl ― for example

2. parable
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume IV, verse 456:

     این مثال جان حیوانی بود / نه مثال جان ربانی بود

     in mesâl-e jân-e heyvâni bovad / na mesâl-e jân-e rabbâni bovad

     This is a parable of the animal soul, not a parable of the divine soul.

3. resemblance, likeness
   • c. 1260, ʿAṭā-Malik Juwaynī, translated by John Andrew Boyle, تاریخ جهانگشای [History of the World-Conqueror]:

     بحقیقت آن موضع واسطت مملکت ایشان است بر مثال مرکز و دایره.

     be-haqiqat ân mowze' vâsetat-e mamlakat-e išân ast bar mesâl-e markaz va dâyere.

     Indeed, that [home]land is the middle of their empire, like center and circle.

4. (archaic) order, command, especially written order
   • 11th century, Abu'l-Fażl Bayhaqi, edited by Ali-Akbar Fayyaz, Tarikh-i Bayhaqi, page 82:

     من رفتم سوی هرات، و چنان گمان می‌برم که دیدارِ من با تو و با خانگیان با قیامت افتاده است، از آن بود که در هر بابی مثالی نبود.

     man raftam suy-e herât, va čonân gomân mi-baram ke didâr-e man bâ to va bâ xânegiyân bâ qiyâmat oftâde ast, az ân bovad ke dar har bâb-i mesâl-i na-bovad.

     I started leaving for Herat, and I conjecture that I would visit you and the relatives in the judgment day [I would be killed], that is why there is not an order [I am not issuing order] for every matter.

• → Pashto: مِثال
• → Punjabi:
  • Gurmukhi script: ਮਿਸਾਲ (misāl)
  • Shahmukhi script: مِثال (mis̱āl)
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: मिसाल (misāl)
  • Urdu: مِثال (mis̱āl)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “مثال”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Borrowed from Classical Persian مِثَال (misāl), Arabic مِثَال (miṯāl).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mɪ.sɑːl/

مِثال • (misāl) m (Hindi spelling मिसाल)

1. example, instance, specimen, model, precedent.^[1]

   Synonyms: اُداہَرَن (udāharan), نِدَرْشَن (nidarśan), نَمُونَہ (namūna)