عضو

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Arabic

Root
ع ض و (ʕ-ḍ-w)

Pronunciation

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Noun

عُضْو or عِضْو (ʕuḍw or ʕiḍwm (plural أَعْضَاء (ʔaʕḍāʔ))

  1. organ
  2. member
    أَنَا عُضْوٌ فِي هَٰذِهِ ٱلْمُنَظَّمَةِ.
    ʔanā ʕuḍwun fī hāḏihi l-munaẓẓamati.
    I am a member of this organization.
  3. limb
  4. branch, piece, section

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: üzv
  • Ottoman Turkish: عضو (uzv, vulg. uzuv)
  • Persian: عضو ('ozv)
  • Sindhi: عضوو
  • Urdu: عضو (uzv)
  • Uzbek: uzv

(via plural form أَعْضَاء (ʔaʕḍāʔ)):

References

Persian

Persian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عُضْو (ʕuḍw).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? uzw
Dari reading? uzw
Iranian reading? ozv
Tajik reading? uzv

Noun

عضو (ozv) (plural اعضا (a'zâ) or عضوها (ozv-hâ))

  1. member
    Synonym: کارمند (kârmand)
    عضو خانوادهozv-e xânevâdefamily member
  2. body organ
    Synonyms: آلت (âlat), اندام (andâm)
    • c. 1080, Kaykāwūs, Qābūs-nāma:
      بیماریهای وضع هم بر دو گونه است: یا عضو از جایگاه خویش زایل شود یا پیوند دیگر اعضا بفساد آورد.
      bēmār-hā-yi uzw ham bar du gōna ast: yā uzw az jāygāh-i xwēš zāyil šawad yā paywand-i dīgar a'zā be fasād āwarad.
      There are also two types of disease in the organs: either the organ becomes deficient in its own location, or its links with other organs become corrupted.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  3. (mathematics) member, element
    Synonym: عنصر (onsor)

Derived terms

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عُضْو (ʕuḍw).

Pronunciation

Noun

عُضْو (uzvm (formal plural اعضا, Hindi spelling उज़्व)

  1. member, organ

Further reading

  • Platts, John T. (1884) “عضو”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • عضو”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.