کردگار

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (krtkʾl /⁠kardagār⁠/), 𐫐𐫏𐫡𐫅𐫃𐫀𐫡 (kyrdgʾr /⁠kardagār⁠/). Related to modern کردن (kardan, “to do”), and to Old Armenian քրտիկար (kʻrtikar, “creator”) borrowed from Middle Persian.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [kiɾ.di.ˈɡɑːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰɪɾ.d̪ɪ.ɡɑ́ːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰɪɾ.d̪ɪ.ɡɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [kʰɪɾ.d̪ɪ.ɡɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [kʰiɾ.d̪i.ɡɔ́ːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰʲeɹ.d̪e.ɡɒ́ːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰiɾ.d̪i.ɡɔ́ɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	kirdigār
Dari reading?	kirdigār
Iranian reading?	kerdegâr
Tajik reading?	kirdigor

Dari	کردگار
Iranian Persian
Tajik	кирдигор

Noun

کردگار • (kerdegâr)

1. God, the Creator
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3750:

     باز گو ای باز عرش خوش شکار
     تا چه دیدی این زمان از کردگار

     bāz gō ay bāz-i 'arsh xōš šikār
     tā či dīdī īn zamān az kirdigār

     Tell it forth, O falcon of the empyrean that findest goodly prey,
     that (I may know) what thou hast seen at this time from the Maker.

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “کردگار”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul