حاضر

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ح ض ر (ḥ-ḍ-r)

Verb

حَاضَرَ (ḥāḍara) III, non-past يُحَاضِرُ‎ (yuḥāḍiru)

  1. to give a lecture to
  2. to lecture
  3. to witness, be present for
  4. to present one's self
  5. to give (a ready answer)
  6. to sit with (someone) in contending or disputing
  7. to contend with, to dispute, to debate, to bandy words with (someone)
  8. to plead a cause
  9. to converse with
  10. to vie in running
  11. to dispute for a thing, win and carry it off
  12. to scourge, to beat, to whip
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Root
ح ض ر (ḥ-ḍ-r)

Derived from the active participle of حَضَرَ (ḥaḍara, to be present, to be settled).

Adjective

حَاضِر (ḥāḍir) (feminine حَاضِرَة (ḥāḍira), common plural حُضَّر (ḥuḍḍar), masculine plural حَاضِرُونَ (ḥāḍirūna) or حُضُور (ḥuḍūr), feminine plural حَاضِرَات (ḥāḍirāt) or حَوَاضِر (ḥawāḍir))

  1. present, before the eyes, ready (also applied to money)
  2. second person
Declension
Descendants

Noun

حَاضِر (ḥāḍirm

  1. the present tense
Declension

Adjective

حَاضِر (ḥāḍir) (feminine حَاضِرَة (ḥāḍira), masculine plural حُضَّار (ḥuḍḍār) or حَضَرَة (ḥaḍara))

  1. settled, domiciled
Declension

Noun

حَاضِر (ḥāḍirm (plural حُضَّار (ḥuḍḍār) or حَضَرَة (ḥaḍara), feminine حَاضِرَة (ḥāḍira))

  1. inhabitant of a village of town
  2. family
  3. tribe
Declension

Interjection

حَاضِر (ḥāḍir)

  1. (dialectal) Used to affirm a command.

References

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic حَاضِر (ḥāḍir).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? hāzir
Dari reading? hāzir
Iranian reading? hâzer
Tajik reading? hozir

Adjective

Dari حاضِر
Iranian Persian
Tajik ҳозир

حاضِر (hâzer)

  1. ready; prepared
    حاضرم.hâzer-am.I’m ready.
    شام حاضره. (colloquial Iranian)šâm hâzer-e.Dinner is ready.
    حاضر بودند بمیرند.
    hâzer budand bemirand.
    They were prepared to die.
  2. present (antonym of absent)
    Antonym: غایب (ğâyeb)

Derived terms

verbs
others

Noun

حاضر (hâzer) (plural حاضران (hâzerân) or حضار (hozzâr) or حاضرین (hâzerin))

  1. someone present (at a location)

Descendants

(Descendants here include borrowings from eastern dialects of Persian, now written in Cyrillic and referred to as Tajik. In Tajik, حاضر, written ҳозир (hozir) in Cyrillic, is also an adverb meaning “now; currently”, which is the meaning in some of the borrowings.)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian حاضر (hāzir), from Arabic حَاضِر (ḥāḍir).

Adjective

حاضر (hāzir) (Hindi spelling हाज़िर)

  1. ready
  2. present

Related terms

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu حاضر (hāzir).

Adjective

حاضر (hāzir)

  1. ready
  2. present