علم

’ilm (inf. n. of علم 'to know'), s.m. Knowledge, learning, science; literature; doctrine:—’ilm-ě-āb, Hydrostatics:—’ilm-ě-adab, Literature; ethics, moral science, morality; etiquette:—’ilm-ě-aḵẖlāq, Moral philosophy, ethics, etc.:—’ilm-ě-asmā, The knowledge of the names (i.e. of the attributes of God):—’ilm-ě-ilāhī, Theology:—’ilm-ě-āwāz, Acoustics:—’ilm-ě-baḥs̤, The art of reasoning, the science of logic:—’ilm-ě-bayān, or ’ilm-ě-balāg̠at, 'The explanatory science,' rhetoric (=‘ilm-ě-kalām):—’ilm-ě-tashrīḥ, Anatomy:—’ilm-ě-taṣawwuf, The mystic or contemplative science:—’ilm-ě-tawārīḵẖ, Chronology; history:—’ilm-ě-jān, Physiology:—’ilm-ě-jamādāt, Mineralogy:—’ilm-ě-ḥisāb, Arithmetic:—’ilm-ě-hikmat, Philosophy; physics:—’ilm-ě-ḥaiwānāt, Zoology:—’ilm-ḵẖẉān, adj. & s.m. Studious;—a student:—’ilm-dān, adj. & s.m. Learned, wise;—a learned or wise man, a scholar:—’ilm-ě-dīn, The science of religion:—’ilm-ě-raqam, Arithmetic:—’ilm-ě-ramal, Geomancy; cleromancy:—’ilm-ě-riyāẓī, The mathematical sciences, mathematics:—’ilm-ě-siḥr, The black art, magic:—’ilm-ě-shǒ’ā, or ’ilm-ě-raushnī, Optics; photology (=‘ilm-ě-manāẕir):—’ilm-ě-t̤abī, or ’ilm-ě-t̤abīī, Natural philosophy:—’ilm-ě-’arūẓ, Prosody, versification:—’ilm-ě-g̠ubār, Arithmetic:—’ilm-ě-g̠aib, The knowledge of what is occult or absent, or what has not yet existed; the occult sciences; foreknowledge; divination:—’ilm-ě-firāsat, and ’ilm-ě-qiyāfa, The science of physiognomy:—’ilm-ě-kalām, Rhetoric, oratory, eloquence:—’ilm-ě-kīmiyā, Alchemy; chemistry:—’ilm-ě-mus̤allas̤, Trigonometry:—’ilm-ě-mus̤allas̤-ě-musat̤t̤aḥ, Plane trigonometry:—’ilm-ě-mus̤allas̤-ě-kurawī, Spherical trigonometry:—’ilm-ě-majlis, and ’ilm-ě-nishast-o-barḵẖāst, A knowledge of etiquette:—’ilm-ě-mudun, Political science or economy:—’ilm-ě-marāya, Perspective:—’ilmě-masāḥat, Mensuration:—’ilm-ě-ma’ādin, or ’ilm-ě-ma’dinīyāt (or ma’danīyāt), Mineralogy:—’ilm-ě-miqnāt̤īs, Magnetism:—’ilm-ě-manāz̤ir, Optics; photology:—’ilm-ě-mant̤iq, Logic:—’ilm-ě-maujūdāt, The knowledge of natural phenomena:—’ilm-ě-mūsīqī(or mūsiqī), The science of music:—’ilm-ě-nabātāt, Botany:—’ilm-ě-nujūm, Astrology; astronomy:—’ilm-ě-handasa (vulg. handsa, or hindsa), Geometry:—’ilm-wālā, adj. & s.m. (f. -ī) = ’ilm-dān, q.v.:—’ilm-o-faẓl, Knowledge and virtue or excellence:—’ilm-ě-haiat, The science of astronomy.