Persian

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Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? ranj
Dari reading? ranj
Iranian reading? ranj
Tajik reading? ranj

Adjective

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Dari رنج
Iranian Persian
Tajik ранҷ

رنج (ranj) (plural رنج‌ها (ranj-hâ))

  1. pain, toil, trouble
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume III, verse 202:
      داد او را جمله ملک این جهان / حق ندادش درد و رنج و اندهان
      dâd ô râ jumla-i-mulk-i-ên jahân / haq na-dâd-aš dard u ranj u andhân
      God gave him all the empire of this world, (but) He did not give him grief and pain and sorrows.
  2. affliction, hardship, bodily pain
  3. illness, ailment
  4. (Dari) wrench, spanner

References

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