دشوار

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian دشوار (došvâr, difficult, hard), from Middle Persian (dwšw'l /⁠dušwār⁠/).

Adjective

دشوار (düşvâr)

  1. difficult, hard, cumbersome, demanding to handle or get around with
    Synonyms: چتین (çetin), سخت (saht), گوچ (güç), مشكل (müşkil)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: düşvar

Further reading

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Persian (dwšw'l /⁠dušwār⁠/), from Old Persian . By surface analysis, دش (duš-, bad) +‎ خوار (xvâr, easy; mean, abject), denoting the opposite of easy;[1] see Proto-Iranian *duš- (bad) for more on the prefix. Compare Old Armenian դժուար (džuar), an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? dušwār
Dari reading? dušwār
Iranian reading? došvâr
Tajik reading? dušvor

Adjective

دشوار (došvâr) (comparative دشوارتَر (došvâr-tar), superlative دشوارتَرین (došvâr-tarin))

  1. difficult, hard
    Synonym: سخت (saxt)

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2000) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 323