Tabríztab-reezCity in Northwest Persia, where the Báb was martyred July 9, 1850.
Ṭaffr.w. raffStands for the lands about Karbilá.
Tafsá’r-i-Hútaf-seer-eh-hooWriting of Bahá’u’lláh (‘Iráq).
Ṭághúttaw-gootAn idol mentioned in Qur’án 2:257, etc. Also the devil. Stigma wrongfully applied by Mírzá Yaḥyá to the distinguished Dayyán, whom he caused to be murdered.
Ṭáhirihtaw-hair-eh“The Pure One,” so named by the “Tongue of Glory,” noblest of her sex in, and outstanding heroine of, the Bábí Dispensation; only woman among the Letters of the Living, and the first woman suffrage martyr. Born Qazvín, 1817–1818, put to death Ṭihrán, August, 1852. (GPB 7, 33, 75; DB 628).
TájtawjTall felt headdress adopted by Bahá’u’lláh in 1863, on the day of His departure from His Most Holy House. Crown. (GPB 152).
Tajallí, pl. Tajallíyátta-jal-lee-yawtEffulgence(s), Tablet of Bahá’u’lláh (Holy Land).
Tákurtaw-coreVillage in the district of Núr, Mázindarán, where the stately ancestral home of Mírzá Buzurg and Bahá’u’lláh was located.
Takyihtack-yehMonastery or religious establishment. Religious theatre.
Takyiy-i-Mawláná Khálidtack-yeh-yeh-mo-lawn-
aw-caw-ledTheological seminary “of our Master, Khálid,” in a room of which Bahá’u’lláh resided in Sulaymáníyyih.
Takyiy-i-Mawlavítack-yeh-yeh-mo-la-veeSeminary of the Mawlaví dervishes.
Taqíyyihtack-ee-yehLip-denial of one’s faith, sanctioned by Shí‘ah Islám in times of peril.
Ṭarázáttar-Oz-ought
(ar as in Harry)Ornaments. Tablet of Bahá’u’lláh(Holy Land)
Tarbíyattar-bee-yat
(ar as in Harry)Training. Name of two Bahá’í Schools in Ṭihrán for boys and girls respectively.
Ṭaríqattar-ee-kat
(ar as in Harry)Path of mystic wayfarer. Way.
Ta‘zíyihta...zee-yehConsolation. Muslim passion play.
Thábitsaw-betSteadfast. Name given to Thornton Chase, “the first American believer” (converted 1894), by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. (GPB 257).
Thamúdsa-moodAncient Arabian tribe, the “successors...of the ‘Ádites” (Qur’án 7:74). They moved from the country of the ‘Ádites to al-Ḥijr where they lived in habitations cut in the rocks. (Qur’án 15:80). This people hamstrung the she-camel miraculously produced as a sign of His mission by their Prophet, Ṣáliḥ, and were destroyed by a “terrible noise from heaven.” (Qur’án 54:31).
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