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Persian
Etymology
From Arabic ضَرُورِيّ (ḍarūriyy).
Adjective
ضروری • (zaruri)
- necessary
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian ضروری (ẓarūrī), itself from Arabic ضَرُورِيّ (ḍarūriyy). By surface analysis, ضرور (ẓurūr) + ی (ī).
Pronunciation
Adjective
ضَرُوری or ضُرُوری • (zarūrī or zurūrī) (Hindi spelling ज़रूरी or ज़ुरूरी)
- necessary, required
- Synonym: لازمی (lāzamī)
- important
Usage notes
zarūrī (with the fatha on the first letter) is more commonly employed.
Further reading
- “ضروری”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “ضروری”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ضرور”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 420
- Platts, John T. (1884) “ضروري”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 749
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “ضرور”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 835
- John Shakespear (1834) “ضروری”, 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
Ushojo
Etymology
From Urdu ضروری (zurūrī), from Arabic ضَرُورِيّ (ḍarūriyy).
Adjective
ضروری (zarōrī)
- must, necessary, compulsory
- Synonym: خامخا (xāmxā)