محروم

Arabic

Root
ح ر م (ḥ r m)
17 terms

Etymology

Derived from the passive participle of the verb حَرَمَ (ḥarama, “to deprive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maħ.ruːm/
• Rhymes: -uːm

Adjective

مَحْرُوم • (maḥrūm) (feminine مَحْرُومَة (maḥrūma), masculine plural مَحْرُومُونَ (maḥrūmūna), feminine plural مَحْرُومَات (maḥrūmāt))

1. passive participle of حَرَمَ (ḥarama)
   1. deprived, dispossessed, bereft

Declension

Declension of adjective مَحْرُوم (maḥrūm)

Singular	Masculine		Feminine
	basic singular triptote		singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Informal	مَحْرُوم maḥrūm	الْمَحْرُوم al-maḥrūm	مَحْرُومَة maḥrūma	الْمَحْرُومَة al-maḥrūma
Nominative	مَحْرُومٌ maḥrūmun	الْمَحْرُومُ al-maḥrūmu	مَحْرُومَةٌ maḥrūmatun	الْمَحْرُومَةُ al-maḥrūmatu
Accusative	مَحْرُومًا maḥrūman	الْمَحْرُومَ al-maḥrūma	مَحْرُومَةً maḥrūmatan	الْمَحْرُومَةَ al-maḥrūmata
Genitive	مَحْرُومٍ maḥrūmin	الْمَحْرُومِ al-maḥrūmi	مَحْرُومَةٍ maḥrūmatin	الْمَحْرُومَةِ al-maḥrūmati
Dual	Masculine		Feminine
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Informal	مَحْرُومَيْن maḥrūmayn	الْمَحْرُومَيْن al-maḥrūmayn	مَحْرُومَتَيْن maḥrūmatayn	الْمَحْرُومَتَيْن al-maḥrūmatayn
Nominative	مَحْرُومَانِ maḥrūmāni	الْمَحْرُومَانِ al-maḥrūmāni	مَحْرُومَتَانِ maḥrūmatāni	الْمَحْرُومَتَانِ al-maḥrūmatāni
Accusative	مَحْرُومَيْنِ maḥrūmayni	الْمَحْرُومَيْنِ al-maḥrūmayni	مَحْرُومَتَيْنِ maḥrūmatayni	الْمَحْرُومَتَيْنِ al-maḥrūmatayni
Genitive	مَحْرُومَيْنِ maḥrūmayni	الْمَحْرُومَيْنِ al-maḥrūmayni	مَحْرُومَتَيْنِ maḥrūmatayni	الْمَحْرُومَتَيْنِ al-maḥrūmatayni
Plural	Masculine		Feminine
	sound masculine plural		sound feminine plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Informal	مَحْرُومِين maḥrūmīn	الْمَحْرُومِين al-maḥrūmīn	مَحْرُومَات maḥrūmāt	الْمَحْرُومَات al-maḥrūmāt
Nominative	مَحْرُومُونَ maḥrūmūna	الْمَحْرُومُونَ al-maḥrūmūna	مَحْرُومَاتٌ maḥrūmātun	الْمَحْرُومَاتُ al-maḥrūmātu
Accusative	مَحْرُومِينَ maḥrūmīna	الْمَحْرُومِينَ al-maḥrūmīna	مَحْرُومَاتٍ maḥrūmātin	الْمَحْرُومَاتِ al-maḥrūmāti
Genitive	مَحْرُومِينَ maḥrūmīna	الْمَحْرُومِينَ al-maḥrūmīna	مَحْرُومَاتٍ maḥrūmātin	الْمَحْرُومَاتِ al-maḥrūmāti

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: məhrum
• → Persian: محروم
  • → Hindi: महरूम (mahrūm)
  • → Urdu: مَحْرُوم (mahrūm)
• → Ottoman Turkish: محروم (mahrûm)
  • Turkish: mahrum
• → Spanish: majara
• → Turkmen: mahrum
• → Uyghur: مەھرۇم (mehrum)
• → Uzbek: mahrum

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَحْرُوم (maḥrūm)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [mah.ɾuːm]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäɦ.ɾuːm]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäɦ.ɾuːm]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mɑː.ɾuːm]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mɔː.ɾum]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæɦ.ɹuːm]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mäɦ.ɾum]

Readings
Classical reading?	mahrūm
Dari reading?	mahrūm
Iranian reading?	mahrum
Tajik reading?	mahrum

Adjective

Dari	محروم
Iranian Persian
Tajik	маҳрум

محروم • (mahrum) (comparative محروم‌تَر (mahrum-tar), superlative محروم‌تَرین (mahrum-tarin))

1. deprived, excluded, bereaved
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 1077:

     چیست در عالم بگو یک نعمتی
     که نه محرومند از وی امتی

     čīst dar 'ālam bi-gō yak na'mat-ē
     ki na mahrūm-and az way ummat-ē

     Tell (me), what single blessing is there in the world,
     from which some group of people is not excluded?

2. disappointed

References

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

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian محروم (mahrūm), from Arabic مَحْرُوم (maḥrūm).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /məɦ.ɾuːm/, [mɛɦ.ɾuːm]

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• Rhymes: -uːm
• Hyphenation: مَح‧رُوم

Adjective

مَحْرُوم • (mahrūm) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling महरूम)

1. deprived of; excluded
2. denied; refused
3. unfortunate; wretched; miserable
4. (rare) pure; innocent

Usage notes

Most commonly used in the first sense.

Further reading

• “محروم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “محروم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “محروم”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.