معذور

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Arabic

Root
ع ذ ر (ʕ ḏ r)
12 terms

Etymology

Derived from the passive participle of the verb عَذَرَ (ʕaḏara, to excuse).

Pronunciation

Adjective

مَعْذُور (maʕḏūr) (feminine مَعْذُورَة (maʕḏūra), masculine plural مَعْذُورُونَ (maʕḏūrūna), feminine plural مَعْذُورَات (maʕḏūrāt))

  1. passive participle of عَذَرَ (ʕaḏara)
    1. who has a valid excuse: excusable, exempt

Declension

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: məzur
  • Persian: معذور
  • Ottoman Turkish: معذور (maʾẕûr)

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَعْذُور (maʕḏūr).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? ma'ḏūr
Dari reading? ma'zūr
Iranian reading? ma'zur
Tajik reading? maʾzur

Adjective

مَعْذور (ma'zur)

  1. excusable; exempt
    • c. 1390, Hafez, “Ghazal 5”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Hafez]‎:
      حافظ به خود نپوشید این خرقهٔ می‌آلود
      ای شیخ پاک‌دامن معذور دار ما را
      hafiz ba xwad na-pôšîd în xirqa-yi may-âlûd
      ay šayx-i pâk-dâman ma'zûr dâr mâ râ
      Hafez, do not put on these wine-sullied rags!
      O purely clad shaykh, hold me excusable.
      (romanization in Classical Persian)

Urdu

Etymology

First attested in c. 1582 as Middle Hindi معذور (maʻẕūr), from Classical Persian معذور (maʻẕūr), itself from Arabic مَعْذُور (maʕḏūr).

Pronunciation

Adjective

مَعْذُور (ma'zūr) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling माज़ूर)

  1. disabled, handicapped
  2. (formal or dated) excused, excusable, exempt
  3. (figuratively) helpless
  4. (rare) stuck, closed, resilient
  5. deprived

Further reading

  • معذور”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • معذور”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “معذور”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.