غیرت

See also: غيرت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic غَيْرَة (ḡayra).

Noun

غیرت • (ğayret)

1. labour
2. effort
3. struggle

Derived terms

• غیرتلو (gayretli)

Descendants

• Turkish: gayret
• → Albanian: gajret
• → Armenian: խայրէթ (xayrētʻ)
• → Macedonian: гајрет (gajret)

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic غَيْرَة (ḡayra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɣaj.ˈɾat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɣäj.ɾǽt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɣäj.ɾǽt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ɣäj.ɾǽt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ɣäj.ɾǽt̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qej.ɹǽt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʁäj.ɾǽt̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	ğayrat
Dari reading?	ğayrat
Iranian reading?	ğeyrat
Tajik reading?	ġayrat

Noun

Dari	غَیرَت
Iranian Persian	غِیرَت
Tajik	ғайрат

غِیرَت • (ğeyrat)

1. the tendency to control the female members of the family—and sometimes the clan, tribe, or motherland—and to protect them from sexual attention
2. the desire to rise against oppression, or to defend the powerless
3. being conjured to action for the sake of wounded pride or indignity
4. zeal, enthusiasm, ardor, fervency

Synonyms

• تعصب (ta'assob)
• ناموس‌پرستی (nâmus-parasti)
• حمیت (hamiyyat)

Derived terms

• باغیرت (bâ-ğeyrat)
• بالاغیرتاً (bâlâ-ğeyratan)
• بالای غیرتت (bâlâ-ye-ğeyratet)
• به رگ غیرت کسی برخوردن (be rag-e ğeyrat-e kasi bar-xordan)
• به غیرت آوردن (be ğeyrat âvardan)
• بی‌غیرت (bê-ğeyrat)
• خوش‌غیرت (xoš-ğeyrat)
• غیرت به خرج دادن (ğeyrat be xarj dâdan)
• غیرت کردن (ğeyrat kardan)
• غیرت کشیدن (ğeyrat kešidan)
• غیرتمند (ğeyratmand)
• غیرتمندانه (ğeyratmandâne)
• غیرتمندی (ğeyratmandi)
• غیرتی (ğeyrati)
• غیرت‌کش (ğeyrat-keš)

 

Related terms

• غیور (ğayur)
• غیورانه (ğayurâne)
• غیورمرد (ğayur-mard)

Descendants

• → Armenian: ղեյրաթ (ġeyratʻ)
• → Azerbaijani: qeyrət
• → Bashkir: ғәйрәт (ğəyrət)
• → Kazakh: қайрат (qairat)
• → Ottoman Turkish: غیرت (ğayret)
  • Turkish: gayret
  • → Albanian: gajret
  • → Armenian: խայրէթ (xayrētʻ)
  • → Macedonian: гајрет (gajret)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: ग़ैरत (ġairat)

  Urdu: غیرت (ġairat)

See also

• Appendix:Terms considered difficult or impossible to translate into English

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian غیرت (ğayrat), from Arabic غَيْرَة (ḡayra).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɣɛː.ɾət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: غَے‧رَت

Noun

غَیرَت • (ġairat) f (Hindi spelling ग़ैरत)

1. (one's) honour, prestige (self-respect)
2. (to have) shame

Declension

Declension of غیرت
	singular	plural
direct	غیرت (ġairat)	غیرتیں (ġairatẽ)
oblique	غیرت (ġairat)	غیرتوں (ġairatõ)
vocative	غیرت (ġairat)	غیرتو (ġairato)

References

• “غیرت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “غیرت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.