مردار

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مردار (murdâr, “carrion, carcass”), a noun formed from the verb مردن (murdan, “to die”).

Noun

مردار • (murdar)

1. carrion, carcass, the body of a dead animal

   Synonym: لاش (leş)

Adjective

مردار • (murdar)

1. unclean, dirty, filthy, soiled, covered with or containing dirt or grime

   Synonym: پیس (pis)

Derived terms

• مردار آغاجی (murdar ağacı, “purple loosestrife”)
• مردار اولمك (murdar ölmek, “to die unclean”)
• مردار ایلیك (murdar ilik, “spinal marrow”)
• مردار خوار (murdar har, “carrion-eating”)
• مردارسنمق (murdarsınmak, “to regard as unclean”)
• مردارلاتمق (murdarlatmak, “to make or let be filthy”)
• مردارلامق (murdarlamak, “to soil, to make filthy”)
• مردارلانمق (murdarlanmak, “to become filthy”)
• مردارلق (murdarlık, “dirt, filth”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: murdar, mundar
• → Albanian: murdar
• → Aromanian: murdar
• → Bulgarian: мурда́р (murdár)
• → Greek: μουρντάρης (mourntáris)
• → Megleno-Romanian: murdar
• → Middle Armenian: մուռտառ (muṙtaṙ), մուրտառ (murtaṙ), մուրտար (murtar)
  • Armenian: մունդառ (mundaṙ), մուռտառ (muṙtaṙ), մունտառ (muntaṙ), մունդա̈ռ (mundäṙ), մուրդառ (murdaṙ), մուռտալ (muṙtal)
• → Romanian: murdar
• → Serbo-Croatian: mùrdār / му̀рда̄р

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “murdar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3311
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “murdâr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 818
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مردار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1148
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Squalidus”, 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 1589
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مردار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 4565-4566
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “murdar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مردار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1808

Persian

Etymology

Formed of مردن (mordan, “to die”) +‎ ـار (-âr).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [muɾ.ˈdɑːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mʊɾ.d̪ɑ́ːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mʊɾ.d̪ɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mʊɾ.d̪ɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [muɾ.d̪ɔ́ːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [moɹ.d̪ɒ́ːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [muɾ.d̪ɔ́ɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	murdār
Dari reading?	murdār
Iranian reading?	mordâr
Tajik reading?	murdor

Noun

Dari	مردار
Iranian Persian
Tajik	мурдор

مردار • (mordâr)

1. carrion
2. corpse
3. carcass

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: murdar
• → Crimean Tatar: murdar
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: मुर्दार (murdār)

  Urdu: مردار (murdār)

• → Ottoman Turkish: مردار (murdar)
  • Turkish: murdar, mundar
  • → Albanian: murdar
  • → Aromanian: murdar
  • → Bulgarian: мурда́р (murdár)
  • → Greek: μουρντάρης (mourntáris)
  • → Megleno-Romanian: murdar
  • → Middle Armenian: մուռտառ (muṙtaṙ), մուրտառ (murtaṙ), մուրտար (murtar)
    • Armenian: մունդառ (mundaṙ), մուռտառ (muṙtaṙ), մունտառ (muntaṙ), մունդա̈ռ (mundäṙ), մուրդառ (murdaṙ), մուռտալ (muṙtal)
  • → Romanian: murdar
  • → Serbo-Croatian: mùrdār / му̀рда̄р
• → Pashto: مردار (mërdâr)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مردار (murdār).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mʊɾ.d̪ɑːɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɾ

Adjective

مردار • (murdār) (Hindi spelling मुर्दार)

1. dead
2. impure
3. unclean
4. dirty
5. ugly
6. profane
7. obscene

Noun

مردار • (murdār) m (Hindi spelling मुर्दार)

1. carrion
2. corpse
3. carcass