تکلیف

Borrowed from Arabic تَكْلِيف (taklīf), from كَلَّفَ (kallafa).

تکلیف • (taklīf / taklif) (plural تکلیف‌ها (taklīf-hā / taklif-hâ), or تکالیف (takālīf / takâlif), Tajik spelling таклиф)

1. responsibility, task

   Synonyms: مسئولیت (mas'ūliyyat / mas'uliyat), وظیفه (wazīfa / vazife)

2. (Islam) responsibility
3. (Islam) puberty

   Synonym: بلوغ (bulūġ / boluġ)

   سن تکلیف ― sinn-i taklīf / senn-e taklif ― age of puberty

4. status, state, role

   تعیین تکلیف ― ta'yīn-i taklīf / ta'yin-e taklif ― deciding something's status

5. homework

   Synonym: مشق (mašq / mašġ)

6. proper course or thing to do, imposition
7. (verbal noun, dated) troubling, bothering
   1. (Dari, otherwise dated) trouble, misery, inconvenience

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: तकलीफ़ (taklīf)

  Urdu: تَکلِیف (taklīf)

• → Turkmen: teklip
• → Uyghur: تەكلىپ (teklip)
• → Uzbek: taklif

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “تکلیف”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• محمد معین [Mohammad-e Mo'in] (1972), “تکلیف”, in Jafar Shahidi, editor, فرهنگ فارسی معین [Farhang-e Fârsi-ye Mo'in, Moin Persian Dictionary] (in Persian), Tehran: Amir Kabir Publishers
• ʿAmīd, Ḥasan (1985), “تکلیف”, in Farhang-e Fārsī-e ʿAmīd (in Persian), Tehrān: Amīrkabīr
• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “تکلیف”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• “تکلیف”, in The Wilson English - Dari Dictionary (Webonary), SIL International, 2013
• Bulkin, Carleton (2012), “تکلیف”, in Dari-English/English-Dari practical dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, →LCCN
• “تکلیف”, in قاموس کبیر افغانستان [qāmūs-i kabīr-i afġānistān, The Great Dictionary of Afghanistan] (in Persian), Afghan Dictionary, 2023

Borrowed from Classical Persian تَکْلِیف (taklīf), borrowed from Arabic تَكْلِيف (taklīf), from كَلَّفَ (kallafa).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t̪ək.liːf/
• Rhymes: -iːf

تَکْلِیف • (taklīf) f (Hindi spelling तकलीफ़)

1. trouble, difficulty
2. affliction, pain
3. suffering, hardship, distress

• “تکلیف”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “تکلیف”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.