Arabic

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Root
ع ذ ر (ʕ ḏ r)
12 terms

Etymology

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Derived from the passive participle of the verb عَذَرَ (ʕaḏara, to excuse).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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مَعْذُور (maʕḏūr) (feminine مَعْذُورَة (maʕḏūra), masculine plural مَعْذُورُونَ (maʕḏūrūna), feminine plural مَعْذُورَات (maʕḏūrāt))

  1. passive participle of عَذَرَ (ʕaḏara)
    1. who has a valid excuse: excusable, exempt

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Azerbaijani: məzur
  • Persian: معذور
  • Ottoman Turkish: معذور (maʾẕûr)

Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic مَعْذُور (maʕḏūr).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? ma'ḏūr
Dari reading? ma'zūr
Iranian reading? ma'zur
Tajik reading? maʾzur

Adjective

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مَعْذور (ma'zur)

  1. excusable; exempt
    • c. 1390, Hafez, “Ghazal 5”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Hafez]‎[1]:
      حافظ به خود نپوشید این خرقهٔ می‌آلود
      ای شیخ پاک‌دامن معذور دار ما را
      hafiz ba xwad na-pôšîd în xirqa-yi may-âlûd
      ay šayx-i pâk-dâman ma'zûr dâr mâ râ
      Hafez, do not put on these wine-sullied rags!
      O purely clad shaykh, hold me excusable.
      (romanization in Classical Persian)

Urdu

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Etymology

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First attested in c. 1582 as Middle Hindi معذور (maʻẕūr), from Classical Persian معذور (maʻẕūr), itself from Arabic مَعْذُور (maʕḏūr).

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Adjective

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مَعْذُور (ma'zūr) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling माज़ूर)

  1. disabled, handicapped
  2. (formal or dated) excused, excusable, exempt
  3. (figuratively) helpless
  4. (rare) stuck, closed, resilient
  5. deprived

Further reading

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  • معذور”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • معذور”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “معذور”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.