رنج

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɾand͡ʒ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ränd͡ʒ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ränd͡ʒ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ränd͡ʒ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ränd͡ʒ̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɹænd͡ʒ̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɾänd͡ʒ]

Readings
Classical reading?	ranj
Dari reading?	ranj
Iranian reading?	ranj
Tajik reading?	ranj

Adjective

Dari	رنج
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ранҷ

رنج • (ranj) (plural رنج‌ها (ranj-hâ))

1. pain, toil, trouble
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume III, verse 202:

     داد او را جمله ملک این جهان / حق ندادش درد و رنج و اندهان

     dâd ô râ jumla-i-mulk-i-ên jahân / haq na-dâd-aš dard u ranj u andhân

     God gave him all the empire of this world, (but) He did not give him grief and pain and sorrows.

2. affliction, hardship, bodily pain
3. illness, ailment

References

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “رنج”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim