معذرت

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Persian

Etymology

    Borrowed from Arabic مَعْذِرَة (maʕḏira), from عَذَر (ʕaḏar).

    Pronunciation

    Readings
    Classical reading? ma'zirat
    Dari reading? ma'zirat
    Iranian reading? ma'zerat
    Tajik reading? maʾzirat

    Noun

    معذرت (ma'zerat)

    1. excuse; apology
    2. forgiveness, pardon
      Synonym: پوزش (pūzeš)
      • c. 1670, Ṣāʾib-i Tabrīzī, “Ghazal 734”, in دیوان [Dīvān]‎:
        صائب مباش در صدد معذرت که نیست
        بهتر ز انفعال، شفیعی گناه را
        sā'ib ma-bāš dar sadad-i ma'zirat ki nēst
        bihtar zi infi'āl šafī'-ē gunāh rā
        Sā'ib, do not seek forgiveness! For there is not
        Any intercessor for sins who is better than shame.
        (Classical Persian romanization)

    Derived terms

    Urdu

    Etymology

      Borrowed from Classical Persian مَعْذِرَت (ma'zirat), borrowed from Arabic مَعْذِرَة (maʕḏira), from عَذَر (ʕaḏar).[1][2][3] First attested in c. 1609 as Middle Hindi معذرت (m'ẕrt /⁠ma'ẕirat⁠/).[4]

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      مَعْذَرَت (ma'zaratf (Hindi spelling माज़रत)

      1. apology, sorry
      2. excuse
      3. plea

      Declension

          Declension of معذرت
      singular plural
      direct مَعْذَرَت (ma'zarat) مَعْذَرَتیں (ma'zaratẽ)
      oblique مَعْذَرَت (ma'zarat) مَعْذَرَتوں (ma'zaratõ)
      vocative مَعْذَرَت (ma'zarat) مَعْذَرَتو (ma'zarato)

      Interjection

      مَعْذَرَت (ma'zarat) (Hindi spelling माज़रत)

      1. sorry; apologies
      2. excuse me

      References

      1. ^ Platts, John T. (1884) “معذرت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
      2. ^ S. W. Fallon (1879) “معذرت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
      3. ^ John Shakespear (1834) “معذرت”, 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
      4. ^ معذرت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

      Further reading

      • معذرت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
      • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “معذرت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.