مرضی

Urdu

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَرْضِی (marzī), from Arabic مُرْضِي (murḍī, “pleasing”).

Pronunciation 1

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /məɾ.ziː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: مَر‧ضی

Noun

مَرْضی • (marzī) f (Hindi spelling मर्ज़ी or मरज़ी)

1. choice
2. will
3. need

Declension

Declension of مرضی
	singular	plural
direct	مَرْضی (marzī)	مَرْضِیاں (marziyā̃)
oblique	مَرْضی (marzī)	مَرْضِیوں (marziyō̃)
vocative	مَرْضی (marzī)	مَرْضِیو (marziyō)

Pronunciation 2

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mə.ɾə.ziː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: مَ‧رَ‧ضی

Adjective

مَرْضی • (marzī) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling मर्ज़ी) (rare)

1. favourite

   Synonyms: من‌پسند, پسندیدہ

2. allowed; approved

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mə.ɾə.ziː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: مَ‧رَ‧ضی

Adjective

مَرَضی • (marazī) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling मरज़ी) (uncommon)

1. sick; patient

   Synonym: مریض

Further reading

• “مرضی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “مرضی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مرضی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “مرضي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1023
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “مرضي”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1089
• John Shakespear (1834) “مرضی”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC