اجرت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أُجْرَة (ʔujra, “rent; reward; compensation”).

Noun

اجرت • (ücret) (definite accusative اجرتی (ücreti), plural اجرات (ücurât))

1. pay, wage, remuneration, salary, emolument, the amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work

   Synonym: معاش (maʼaş)

2. charge, fee, remuneration, honorarium, the amount of money levied for rights or professional services

   Synonym: بدل (bedel)

3. postage, the charge required to send a letter, parcel, or item through the post, usually signalled with a postage stamp

Derived terms

• اجرتسز (ücretsiz, “free of pay, hire, or rent”)
• اجرتلو (ücretli, “used or employed for pay”)
• مشورت اجرتی (meşveret ücreti, “charge of consultation”)

Descendants

• Turkish: ücret

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “ücret”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5027
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “ücret”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎ [Ottoman–Turkish Encyclopedic Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1353
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “اجرت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 52
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Compensatio”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 219
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “اجرت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 60
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “ücret”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “اجرت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 28

Urdu

Etymology

From Arabic أُجْرَة (ʔujra).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʊd͡ʒ.ɾət̪/

Noun

اُجْرَت • (ujrat) f (Hindi spelling उजरत)

1. fee, remuneration, rent, tariff, wage, salary