حراج

Arabic

Etymology

Noun

حَراج • (ḥarāj) m

(uncommon) sale, discount or auction
Synonym: مزايدة

Persian

Etymology

Of Egyptian origin.^[1]^[2] Probably borrowed from Coptic [Term?], itself a compound of ϩⲁ- (ha-, “for (a price)”), related to ἐπί (epí),^[3] with a suffix of unknown origin. Unrelated to Arabic ح ر ج (ḥ r j) (“narrow, constricted, difficult”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ˈha.ɾɑːd͡ʒ]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hǽ.ɾɑːd͡ʒ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔǽ.ɾɑːd͡ʒ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔǽ.ɾɔːd͡ʒ̥]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ˈhe.ɹɒːd͡ʒ̥]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [hǽ.ɾɔd͡ʒ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	ha-rāj
Dari reading^?	ha-rāj
Iranian reading^?	he-râj
Tajik reading^?	ha-roj

(Iran, uncommon) IPA^(key): /haˈɾɑːd͡ʒ/

Noun

حراج • (harāj)

sale, discount or auction
Synonym: تخفیف

Fardā yek harāj dar bāzār bargozār mishavad.
Tomorrow a sale will be held at the market.
(dated) bazaar
(archaic) exclamation made when an item is sold at auction
(obsolete) troop of camels

Verb

حراج • (harāj)

(transitive) to sell at a discount
Tasmim gereftand tamām-e mahsulāt rā harāj konand.
They decided to discount all the products.
(transitive) to auction

Synonyms

مزایده

References

^ Sayyed Mohammad Ali (1926) “حراج”, in فرهنگ نظام [Farhang-e Nezam, The Nezam Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Persian), Hyderabad, page 501: “این لفظ عربی نیست در عربی حراج بمعنی گناه وگناه است که با این معنی مناسبت ندارد و این لفظ را مصر یها ساخته و ایرانها تقلید کرده اند۔ ― This word is not Arabic; In Arabic, "haraj" means "sin" or "wrongdoing," which does not align with this meaning. This term was coined by Egyptians and adopted by Iranians.”
^ Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “حراج”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
^ Crum, Walter E. (1939) A Coptic Dictionary‎^[2], Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 633

Bibliography

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “حراج”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “حراج”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

[1] Sayyed Mohammad Ali (1926) “حراج”, in فرهنگ نظام [Farhang-e Nezam, The Nezam Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Persian), Hyderabad, page 501: “این لفظ عربی نیست در عربی حراج بمعنی گناه وگناه است که با این معنی مناسبت ندارد و این لفظ را مصر یها ساخته و ایرانها تقلید کرده اند۔ ― This word is not Arabic; In Arabic, "haraj" means "sin" or "wrongdoing," which does not align with this meaning. This term was coined by Egyptians and adopted by Iranians.”

[2] Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “حراج”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

[3] Crum, Walter E. (1939) A Coptic Dictionary‎^[2], Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 633

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