موضوع

Derived from the passive participle of وَضَعَ (waḍaʕa, “to put, lay”). The sense “topic, subject” at first in logical discourse as a loan translation of Ancient Greek ὑποκείμενον (hupokeímenon, literally “that which is laid down, underlying, suggested”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /maw.dˤuːʕ/

• Audio:

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مَوْضُوع • (mawḍūʕ) m (plural مَوَاضِيع (mawāḍīʕ))

1. topic, subject, theme

• → Azerbaijani: mövzu
• → Classical Persian: مَوْضُوع (mawzū')
  • → Chagatai:
    • Uyghur: ماۋزۇ (mawzu)
    • Uzbek: mavzu
  • → Hindustani:

    Urdu: مَوضُوع (mauzu')

• → Northern Kurdish: mewzû
• → Ottoman Turkish: موضوع (mevzu)
  • Turkish: mevzu
• → Pashto: موضوع (mawzo')
• → Swahili: maudhui
• → Turkish: konu (calque)
• → Turkmen: mowzuk

مَوْضُوع • (mawḍūʕ) (feminine مَوْضُوعَة (mawḍūʕa), masculine plural مَوْضُوعُونَ (mawḍūʕūna), feminine plural مَوْضُوعَات (mawḍūʕāt))

1. passive participle of وَضَع (waḍaʕ)

   الْقَهْوَةُ مَوْضُوعَةٌ عَلىٰ الطَاوِلَة

   al-qahwatu mawḍūʕatun ʕalā ṭ-ṭāwila

   the coffee is put on the table

2. invented, constructed
3. fabricated, deceptively made up

   Synonyms: مُفْتَرًى (muftaran), مَكْذُوب (makḏūb)

   حَدِيث مَوْضُوع ― ḥadīṯ mawḍūʕ ― fabricated hadith

From Arabic مَوْضُوع (mawḍūʕ).

موضوع • (mevzu) (definite accusative موضوعی (mevzuu), plural موضوعات (mevzuat))

1. topic

موضوع • (mevzu)

1. put, placed
2. established

• Turkish: mevzu

Borrowed from Arabic مَوْضُوع (mawḍūʕ).

مُوْضوع • (mowzu') (plural موضوعات (mowzu'ât))

1. subject, topic; theme; issue, matter

   موضوعِ درس ― mowzu'-e dars ― topic of the lesson

   • c. 1080, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, “Qaṣīda 104”, in دیوان ناصرخسرو [Dīvān of Nāṣir-i Khusraw]‎:

     گفتند که «موضوع شریعت نه به عقل است
     زیرا که به شمشیر شد اسلام مقرر»
     گفتم که «نماز از چه بر اطفال و مجانین
     واجب نشود تا نشود عقل مجبر؟»

     guftand ki "mawzu'-i šarī'at na ba aql ast
     zērā ki ba šamšēr⁠ šud islām muqarrar"
     guftam ki "namāz az či bar atfāl u majānīn
     wājib na-šawad tā na-šawad aql mujbar?"

     They said, "Reason is not the subject of the Holy Law,
     Because by the sword was Islam established."
     I said, "Why are the daily prayers for children and the insane
     Not obligatory, so long as reason is not compulsory?"

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “موضوع”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “موضوع”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

Learned borrowing from Arabic مَوْضُوع (mawḍūʕ).

• IPA^(key): /maw.dˤuːʕ/,

• Audio (Ramallah):

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موضوع • (mawḍūʕ) m (plural مواضيع (mawāḍīʕ))

1. subject, topic, theme, issue

Borrowed from Classical Persian موضوع (mawzū'), from Arabic مَوْضُوع (mawḍūʕ).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mɔː.zuː(ʔ)/

• Audio:

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مَوضُوع • (mauzū') m (formal plural موضوعات (mozo'āt), Hindi spelling मौज़ू)

1. subject, topic, issue, matter, discussion
2. object

مَوضُوع • (mauzū') (Hindi spelling मौज़ू)

1. manufactured, established, founded
2. placed, situated, located

• موضوعات (mauzū'āt)

• “موضوع”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “موضوع”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.