خلوت

خَلَوْتُ • (ḵalawtu) (form I)

1. first-person singular past active of خَلَا‎ (ḵalā)

خَلَوْتَ • (ḵalawta) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular past active of خَلَا‎ (ḵalā)

خَلَوْتِ • (ḵalawti) (form I)

1. second-person feminine singular past active of خَلَا‎ (ḵalā)

From Arabic خَلْوَة‎ (ḵalwa).

خلوت • (halvet)

1. solitude; privacy
2. private place; hermitage
3. wilderness

• Turkish: halvet

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “halvet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “خلوت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 861

From Arabic خَلْوَة‎ (ḵalwa).

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /xalwat/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /xalwat/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /xælvæt/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /xalvat/

خلوت • (xalvat) (comparative خلوت‌تَر‎ (xalvat-tar), superlative خلوت‌تَرین‎ (xalvat-tarin))

1. uncrowded, with few people

   Antonym: شلوغ‎ (šoluğ)

   ‏آن کوچه خیلی خلوت بود.‎‎

   ân kuče xeyli xalvat bud.

   That alley was very uncrowded.

2. alone
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, Reynold A. Nicholson, transl., مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume III, verse 1581:

     ‏فعل دارد زن که خلوت می‌کند.‎‎

     fe'l dârad zan ke xalvat mi-konad.

     My wife has an [evil] design, for she is making arrangements to be alone.