मशक़्क़त

Borrowed from Classical Persian مشقت (mašaqqat), from Arabic مَشَقَّة (mašaqqa).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /mə.ʃəq.qət̪/, [mɐ.ʃɐq.qɐt̪], /mə.ʃək.kət̪/, [mɐ.ʃɐk̚.kɐt̪]
• Hyphenation: म‧शक़्‧क़त
• Rhymes: -ət̪

मशक़्क़त • (maśaqqat) f (Urdu spelling مَشَقَّت)

1. toil, labour, trouble, distress, suffering

   Synonyms: कष्ट (kaṣṭ), परिश्रम (pariśram), मेहनत (mehnat), श्रम (śram)

• मशक़्क़ती (maśaqqatī)

• Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “मशक़्क़/त”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House, page 582
• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “मशक्कत”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 3823
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “मशक़्क़त”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 796
• Platts, John T. (1884) “مشقت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1040
• “मशक़्क़त”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.