امداد

See also: إمداد

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِمْدَاد (ʔimdād, “supply, provision, support”).

Noun

امداد • (imdad) (definite accusative امدادی (imdadı), plural امدادلر (imdadlar))

1. help, aid, succour, any action given to provide assistance to a person in difficulty

   Synonyms: مدد (meded), یاردم (yardım), یاری (yarı)

2. assistance, an act of helping behavior, the result of assisting, helping, or aiding someone

   Synonyms: مساعده (müsâʼade), یاردم (yardım)

3. (military) reinforcement, additional troops or materiel sent to support a military action

Derived terms

• امداد ایتمك (imdad etmek, “to help, succor”)
• امدادجی (imdadcı, “helper”)
• امداده یتشمك (imdada yetişmek, “to come to the succour of”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: imdat
• → Armenian: իմտատ (imtat)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “imdat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2160
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “imdâd”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 517
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “امداد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 145
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Succursus”, 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 1622
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “امداد”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 416
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “imdad”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “امداد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 197

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِمْدَاد (ʔimdād).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔim.ˈdɑːð]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪm.d̪ɑ́ːd̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪm.d̪ɑ́ːd̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɪm.d̪ɑ́ːd̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔim.d̪ɔ́ːd̪̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔem.d̪ɒ́ːd̪̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔim.d̪ɔ́d̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	imdāḏ
Dari reading?	imdād
Iranian reading?	emdâd
Tajik reading?	imdod

Noun

امداد • (emdâd)

1. assistance, help

   Synonyms: یاری (yâri), کمک (komak), مساعدت (mosâ'edat)

   • c. 1180, Anwarī, “Qaṣīda 177”, in دیوان انوری [Dīvān of Anwarī]‎^[6]:

     شب محنت من ز امداد فکرت
     درازی شبهای یلدا گرفته

     šab-i mihnat man zi imdād-i fikr-at
     darāzī-yi šab-hā-yi yaldā girifta

     On the night of tribulation, with help from thinking about you:
     I passed through the length of winter solstice nights.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

2. (military) reinforcement

Derived terms

• امداد نمودن (emdâd nemudan)
• امدادی (emdâdi)

 

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِمْدَاد (ʔimdād).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɪm.d̪ɑːd̪/

Noun

امداد • (imdād) f (Hindi spelling इमदाद)

1. aid, help, assistance
2. support

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu امداد (imdād).

Noun

امداد (imdād)

1. help, assist
2. support