حریص

See also: حريص

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَرِيص (ḥarīṣ, “greedy, covetous”).

Adjective

حریص • (haris)

1. greedy, covetous, avaricious, distastefully keen or desirous, especially for something belonging to someone else

   Synonyms: آج (ac), آج كوزلی (ac gözlü)

Derived terms

• حریص ثروت (haris-i servet, “greedy of riches”)
• حریص منصب (haris-i mansıp, “ambitious”)

Descendants

• Turkish: haris

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “حریص”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 651
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “haris”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1880
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “harîs”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 395
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حریص”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 504
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Avidus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 104
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حریص”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1752
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “haris”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حریص”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 781

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَرِيص (ḥarīṣ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ha.ˈɾiːs]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.ɾíːs]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.ɾíːs]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔä.ɾíːs]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔä.ɾís]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [hæ.ɹíːs]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.ɾís]

Readings
Classical reading?	harīs
Dari reading?	harīs
Iranian reading?	haris
Tajik reading?	haris

• Audio (Iran):

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Adjective

حریص • (haris)

1. greedy; covetous

   Synonyms: پرطمع (por-tam'), آزمند (âzmand)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 21:

     کوزه‌‌ی چشم حریصان پر نشد
     تا صدف قانع نشد پر در نشد

     kūza-yi čašm-i harisān por na-šud
     tā sadaf qāni' na-šud por dorr na-šud

     The pitcher, the eye of the covetous, never becomes full: the oyster-shell is not filled with pearls until it is contented.

Derived terms

• حریصانه (harisâne)
• حریصی (harisi)