معذرت
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Persian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic مَعْذِرَة (maʕḏira), from عَذَر (ʕaḏar).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [maʔ.zi.ˈɾat]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [mæʔ.ze.ɹǽt̪]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [mäʔ.zi.ɾǽt̪]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | ma'zirat |
Dari reading? | ma'zirat |
Iranian reading? | ma'zerat |
Tajik reading? | maʾzirat |
Noun
[edit]معذرت • (ma'zerat)
- excuse; apology
- forgiveness, pardon
- Synonym: پوزش (pūzeš)
- c. 1670, Ṣāʾib-i Tabrīzī, “Ghazal 734”, in دیوان [Dīvān][1]:
- صائب مباش در صدد معذرت که نیست
بهتر ز انفعال، شفیعی گناه را- sā'ib ma-bāš dar sadad-i ma'zirat ki nēst
bihtar zi infi'āl šafī'-ē gunāh rā - Sā'ib, do not seek forgiveness! For there is not
Any intercessor for sins who is better than shame.
- sā'ib ma-bāš dar sadad-i ma'zirat ki nēst
Derived terms
[edit]- معذرت خواستن (ma'zerat xâstan, “to apologize”)
Urdu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Etymology tree
Borrowed from Classical Persian مَعْذِرَت (ma'zirat), borrowed from Arabic مَعْذِرَة (maʕḏira), from عَذَر (ʕaḏar).[1][2][3] First attested in c. 1609 as Middle Hindi معذرت (m'ẕrt /ma'ẕirat/).[4]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /məʔ.zə.ɾət̪/, [mɑː.zə.ɾət̪]
- Rhymes: -ət̪
- Hyphenation: مَع‧ذَ‧رَت
Noun
[edit]مَعْذَرَت • (ma'zarat) f (Hindi spelling माज़रत)
Declension
[edit]Declension of معذرت | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
direct | مَعْذَرَت (ma'zarat) | مَعْذَرَتیں (ma'zaratẽ) | ||||||
oblique | مَعْذَرَت (ma'zarat) | مَعْذَرَتوں (ma'zaratõ) | ||||||
vocative | مَعْذَرَت (ma'zarat) | مَعْذَرَتو (ma'zarato) |
Interjection
[edit]مَعْذَرَت • (ma'zarat) (Hindi spelling माज़रत)
References
[edit]- ^ Platts, John T. (1884) “معذرت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- ^ S. W. Fallon (1879) “معذرت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- ^ John Shakespear (1834) “معذرت”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
- ^ “معذرت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
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