روزگار

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian روزگار (ruzgâr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾyz.ɟaːɾ/

Noun

روزگار • (rüzgâr) (plural روزگارلر)

1. wind, real or perceived movement of atmospheric air

   Synonyms: باد (bad), ریح (rih), یل (yel)

Derived terms

• روزگارلی (rüzgârlı, “windy”)

Descendants

• Turkish: rüzgâr

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “rüzgâr1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3988
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “روزگار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 631
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ventus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1732
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “روزگار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2380
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “rüzgâr”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “روزگار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 993

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (rōzkār, “day, a day's work”), from 𐭩𐭥𐭬 (rōz [YWM], “day”), from Old Persian [script needed] (raučah-, “day”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright, to shine, to see”) + [script needed] (kār).

Pronunciation

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• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɾoːz.ɡɑːɾ], [ɾoː.zi.ɡɑːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [roːz.ɡɑːɾ], [roː.zɪ.ɡɑːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [roːz.ɡɑːɾ], [roː.zɪ.ɡɑːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [roːz.ɡɑːɾ], [roː.zɪ.ɡɑːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [rʊːz.ɡɔːɾ], [ru.zi.ɡɔːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɹuːz.ɡɒːɹ], [ɹuː.ze.ɡɒːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɾɵz.ɡɔɾ], [ɾɵ.zi.ɡɔɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	rōzgār, rōzigār
Iranian reading?	ruzgâr, ruzegâr
Tajik reading?	rüzgor, rüzigor

Noun

روزگار • (ruzgâr, ruzegâr)

1. time
2. age
3. fortune
4. world
5. wind

Descendants

• → Bengali: রোজগার (rōjgar)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: रोज़गार (rozgār)

  Urdu: روزگار (rozgār)

• → Ottoman Turkish: روزگار
  • Turkish: rüzgâr
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਰੁਜ਼ਗਾਰ (ruzgār)

  Shahmukhi script: روزگار (ruzgār)