درود

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Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian (drwd /⁠drōd⁠/, “well-being, health, welfare”), from Old Persian *druwatā-, from 𐎯𐎢𐎽𐎢𐎺 (du-u-ru-u-v /⁠duruva-⁠/, “secure, healthy”), from Proto-Iranian *druwáh. Compare Avestan 𐬛𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬙𐬁𐬝 (druuatāt̰, “health”) (from 𐬛𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬀- (druua-)) and Sanskrit ध्रुव (dhruvá, “fixed, immovable; firm”). Related to Old Armenian դրուատ (druat). As a greeting compare Russian здоро́во (zdoróvo, “hi”).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? darōḏ, darūḏ, durūḏ
Dari reading? darūd, durūd
Iranian reading? darud, dorud
Tajik reading? darüd, darud, durud

Interjection

درود • (dorud)

  1. hello; hi; hail

Noun

درود • (dorud)

  1. greeting, salutation
    سلام و درود از خراسان ― salâm o dorud az xorasân ― hello and greetings from Khorasan (Formal Khorasani Persian)
  2. health; well-being; welfare
Descendants

Etymology 2

From Proto-Iranian *dā́ru, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dā́ru, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru. Also see دار (dâr), درخت (deraxt). Aghwan 𐔳𐕒𐕡𐕙𐕒𐕡𐔳 (durud) is an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? darūḏ, durūḏ
Dari reading? darūd, durūd
Iranian reading? darud, dorud
Tajik reading? darud, durud

Noun

درود • (dorud)

  1. (uncommon) timber
  2. (uncommon or Iran) plank
Derived terms
See also

Urdu

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Etymology

First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi درود (drvd /⁠drūd⁠/),[1] borrowed from Classical Persian درود (durūd), from Middle Persian drwd (drōd).

Pronunciation

Noun

دُرُود • (durūd) m (Hindi spelling दुरूद)

  1. blessing, salutation
  2. (Islam) Salawat (durood – the uttering of specific phrases to bless the prophet Muhammad whenever he is mentioned or encountered in a text)
    Synonym: سَلام (salām)
  3. (by extension) Ellipsis of دُرُود شَرِیف (durūd śarīf).

Declension

    Declension of درود
singular plural
direct دُرُود (durūd) دُرُود (durūd)
oblique دُرُود (durūd) دُرُودوں (durūdõ)
vocative دُرُود (durūd) دُرُودو (durūdo)

Derived terms

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. ^ “درود”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Further reading

More information
  • “درود”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “درود”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “درود”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “درود”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “درود”, 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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