غرض

Arabic

Root
غ ر ض (ḡ-r-ḍ)

Verb

غَرِضَ • (ḡariḍa) I, non-past يَغْرَضُ‎ (yaḡraḍu)

  1. to be vexed, to be distressed
  2. to yearn, to long

Conjugation

Verb

غَرَّضَ • (ḡarraḍa) II, non-past يُغَرِّضُ‎ (yuḡarriḍu)

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Conjugation

Noun

غَرَض • (ḡaraḍ) m (plural أَغْرَاض (ʔaḡrāḍ))

  1. verbal noun of غَرِضَ (ḡariḍa) (form I)
  2. object of will, intention, target, desire, interest

Declension

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: qərəz
  • Northern Kurdish: xered
  • Persian: غرض (ğaraz)
    • Gujarati: ગરજ (garaj)
    • Hindustani:
      Hindi: ग़रज़ (ġaraz)
      Urdu: غَرَض (ġaraz)
    • Marathi: गरज (garaj)
    • Punjabi:
      Gurmukhi script: ਗਰਜ਼ (garaz)
      Shahmukhi script: غَرَض (ġaraẓ)
  • Ottoman Turkish: غرض (ġaraz)
    > Turkish: garaz (inherited)
  • Uyghur: غەرەز (gherez)
  • Uzbek: gʻaraz

Adjective

غَرِض • (ḡariḍ)

  1. vexed, distressed

Declension

References

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic غَرَض (ḡaraḍ).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ɣä.ɾǽz]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [ɣä.ɾǽz]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [ɣä.ɾǽz]

Readings
Classical reading? ğaraz
Dari reading? ğaraz
Iranian reading? ğaraz
Tajik reading? ġaraz

Noun

غرض • (ğaraz) (plural اغراض (ağrâz))

  1. intention; desire
    Synonyms: نیت (niyyat), انگیزه (angize)
  2. self-interest; self-servingness
    اغراض شخصی اوağrâz-e šaxsi-ye uhis personal interests
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 334:
      چون غرض آمد هنر پوشیده شد
      صد حجاب از دل به سوی دیده شد
      čōn ğaraz āmad hunar pōšīda šud
      sad hijāb az dil ba sōy-i dīda šud
      When self-interest appears, virtue becomes hidden: a hundred veils rise from the heart to the eye.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  3. spite; grudge; rancor
    Synonym: کینه (kine)
    با تو غرض دارند.bâ to ğaraz dârand.They have a grudge with you.

Urdu

Etymology

First attested in c. 1609 as Middle Hindi غَرَض (ġaraz), borrowed from Classical Persian غَرَض (ğaraz), from Arabic غَرَض (ḡaraḍ).

Pronunciation

Noun

غَرَض • (ġaraz) f (formal plural اَغْرَاض (aġrāz), Hindi spelling ग़रज़)

  1. desire, purpose, intention
    Synonyms: مَطْلَب (matlab), حاجَت (hājat), مَقْصَد (maqsad), اِرادَہ (irāda), ہَدَف (hadaf)
  2. desire, selfishness

Declension

Declension of غرض
singular plural
direct غَرَض (ġaraz) غَرَضیں (ġarazẽ)
oblique غَرَض (ġaraz) غَرَضوں (ġarazõ)
vocative غَرَض (ġaraz) غَرَضو (ġarazo)

Adverb

غَرَض • (ġaraz) (Hindi spelling ग़रज़)

  1. in short, in summary

Further reading

  • UDB:
    (noun) غرض”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
    (adverb) غرض”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • غرض”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “غرض”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John Thompson (1884) “غرض”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “غرض”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “غرض”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
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