رنجور

Persian

Etymology

From earlier رَنْجْوَر (ranjwar), from Middle Persian [script needed] (lncwl /⁠ranǰwar⁠/).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɾan.d͡ʒuːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [rän.d͡ʒuːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [rän.d͡ʒuːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [rän.d͡ʒuːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [rän.d͡ʒuɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɹæn.d͡ʒuːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɾän.d͡ʒuɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	ranjūr
Dari reading?	ranjūr
Iranian reading?	ranjur
Tajik reading?	ranjur

Adjective

Dari	رنجور
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ранҷур

رنجور • (ranjûr) (comparative رنجورتَر (ranjûr-tar), superlative رنجورتَرین (ranjûr-tarin))

1. ill, sick
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume III, verse 115:

     گوید آن رنجور ای یاران من / چیست این شمشیر بر ساران من

     gôyad ân ranjur ay yârân-i-man / čîst ên šamšêr bar sârân-i-man

     The patient says, “O my friends, what is this sword over my head?”

2. afflicted, grieved, distressed

References

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “رنجور”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim