مزدور
Persian
FWOTD – 7 March 2024
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (myzdwbl /mizdwar/, “hireling, hired laborer”), from [script needed] (mzd /mizd/, “reward, hire”), whence modern مزد (mozd).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [muz.ˈduːɾ]
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [mʊz.d̪úːɾ]
- (Kabuli) IPA(key): [mʊz.d̪úːɾ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [muz.d̪úɾ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [moz.d̪úːɹ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [muz.d̪úɾ]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | muzdūr |
| Dari reading? | muzdūr |
| Iranian reading? | mozdur |
| Tajik reading? | muzdur |
Noun
مزدور • (mozdur)
- mercenary
- hired laborer, hireling
- c. 1011, Abu'l-Qāsim Firdawsī, “The reign of Yazdgird”, in شاهنامه [Book of Kings]:
- نشسته نظاره من از دورشان
تو گفتی بدم پیش مزدورشان- nišasta nazāra man az dūr-išān
tu guftī budam pēš muzdūr-išān - I sat, looking at them from afar:
You would have said I was a hireling before them.
- nišasta nazāra man az dūr-išān
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: muzdur
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “مزدور”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “مزدور”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian مزدور (muzdūr, “mercenary; labourer”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /mʊz.d̪uːɾ/
- (common) IPA(key): [məz.d̪uːɾ]
- Rhymes: -uːɾ
- Hyphenation: مُز‧دُور
Declension
| Declension of مزدور | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| direct | مُزْدُور (muzdūr) | مُزْدُور (muzdūr) |
| oblique | مُزْدُور (muzdūr) | مُزْدُوروں (muzdūrō̃) |
| vocative | مُزْدُور (muzdūr) | مُزْدُورو (muzdūrō) |
Derived terms
Derived terms
- مَزْدُوری (mazdūrī, “labour”)
Further reading
- “مزدور”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “مزدور”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مزدور”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
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