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محتاج

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Arabic

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Root
ح و ج (ḥ w j)
7 terms

Etymology

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Active and passive participle of اِحْتَاجَ (iḥtāja, to need).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /muħ.taːd͡ʒ/
    • (Hijazi) IPA(key): [mʊħ.taːd͡ʒ], [mʊħ.taːʒ]

Participle

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مُحْتَاج (muḥtāj) (feminine مُحْتَاجَة (muḥtāja), masculine plural مُحْتَاجُونَ (muḥtājūna), feminine plural مُحْتَاجَات (muḥtājāt))

  1. active participle of اِحْتَاجَ (iḥtāja) the needy, the poor
  2. passive participle of اِحْتَاجَ (iḥtāja)

Declension

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Descendants

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic مُحْتَاج (muḥtāj).

Adjective

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محتاج (muhtac or muhtaç)

  1. needy, in want
  2. needing, requiring

Descendants

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References

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Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic مُحْتَاج (muḥtāj).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? muhtāj
Dari reading? mohtāj
Iranian reading? mohtâj
Tajik reading? mühtoj

Adjective

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Dari محتاج
Iranian Persian
Tajik мӯҳтоҷ, муҳтоҷ

محتاج (mohtâj)

  1. needy, in want, poor
  2. needing, requiring
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 133:
      ساکن کوی تو نبود بگلستان محتاج
      نیست مشتاق تو با روضه رضوان محتاج
      sākin-i kō-yi tō na-buwad ba-gulistān muhtāj
      nēst muštāq-i tō bā rawza-yi rizwān muhtāj
      The one who lives in your alleyway is not in need of the rose garden,
      The one who yearns for you is not in need of Riḍwān's garden [Paradise].
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

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