آلودگی

Persian

Etymology

Compound of آلوده (âlude, “polluted”) +‎ گی (gi, nominalization suffix)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.luː.ða.ˈɡiː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.luː.d̪ä.ɡíː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.luː.d̪ä.ɡíː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.luː.d̪ä.ɡíː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔː.lu.d̪ä.ɡí]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒː.luː.d̪æ.ɡʲíː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɔ.lu.d̪ä.ɡí]

Readings
Classical reading?	ālūḏagī
Dari reading?	ālūdagī
Iranian reading?	âludagi
Tajik reading?	oludagi

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Noun

Dari	آلودگی
Iranian Persian
Tajik	олудагӣ

آلودگی • (âludegi)

1. pollution
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 30:

     چون که مومن آینهی مومن بود
     روی او ز آلودگی ایمن بود

     čōn ki mu'min āyina-ē mu'min buwad
     rōy-i ō za ālūdagī īmin buwad

     Since the true believer is a mirror for the true believer,
     his face is safe from defilement.

2. contamination

Related terms

• آلودن (âludan)

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Persian آلُودَن

Persian آلُودَه

Persian ـِگی

Classical Persian آلُودَگِی (ālūdagī)bor.

Urdu آلُودَگی (ālūdagī)

Borrowed from Classical Persian آلُودَگِی (ālūdagī). First attested in c. 1649 as Middle Hindi آلودگی (ālvdgy /⁠ālūdagī⁠/).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑː.luː.d̪ə.ɡiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: آ‧لُو‧دَ‧گی

Noun

آلُودَگی • (ālūdagī) f (Hindi spelling आलूदगी)

1. pollution
2. contamination
3. impurity

Declension

Declension of آلودگی

	singular	plural
direct	آلُودَگی (ālūdagī)	آلُودَگِیاں (ālūdagiyā̃)
oblique	آلُودَگی (ālūdagī)	آلُودَگِیوں (ālūdagiyō̃)
vocative	آلُودَگی (ālūdagī)	آلُودَگِیو (ālūdagiyō)

Further reading

• “آلودگی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “آلوده”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 16
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “آلودگی”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]