درد

See also: دزد‎

Persian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /daɾd/
• (Dari): IPA^(key): /daɾd/
• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /dæɾd/
  • (Tehrani): IPA^(key): /dæɾd/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /daɾd/

Noun

Dari Persian	درد
Iranian Persian	درد
Tajiki Persian	дард (dard)

درد • (dard)

1. pain
2. ache
3. affliction
4. disease
5. illness
6. complaint

Derived terms

• دردی‎ (dardi)
• درد کردن‎ (dard kardan)
• درد گرفتن‎ (dard gereftan)
• اهل درد‎ (ahl-e dard)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: dərd
• → Hindustani:
  • Urdu: درد‎ (dard)
  • Hindi: दर्द (dard)
• → Northern Kurdish: derd
• → Middle Armenian: դարդ (dard), տարտ (tart), դերդ (derd), տէրտ (tērt)
  • Armenian: դարդ (dard)
• → Ottoman Turkish: [Term?]
  • Turkish: dert
• → Punjabi: ਦਰਦ (dard)
• → Zazaki: derd

Etymology 2

Compare the Iranian borrowings: Aramaic דּוּרְדָּא / דֻּרְדָּא‎ (durdā, “sediment; lees”), in plural דּוּרְדֵּי / דֻּרְדֵּי‎ (durdī); Arabic دُرْدِيّ‎ (durdiyy, “liquid sediment, lees, amurca”). Ultimately from Proto-Iranian *dr̥ti-.

Alternative forms

• دردی‎ (durdi)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /duɾd/
• (Dari): IPA^(key): /dʊɾd/
• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /doɾd/
  • (Tehrani): IPA^(key): /doɾd/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /duɾd/

Noun

درد • (durd)

1. dregs

Descendants

• → Middle Armenian: դիրտ (dirt), տիրտ (tirt), դուրտ (durt), տուրտին (turtin), դրտին (drtin), դրուրտ (drurt), դուրտին (durtin) (see there for further descendants)
• → Armenian: դըռդի (dəṙdi)
• → Ottoman Turkish: طورتی‎ (tortu)
  • Turkish: tortu, torta, tort
• → Azerbaijani: torta
• → Georgian: დურდო (durdo)
• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: [script needed] (dürtʿ)
• → Kurdish: [script needed] (torté)

See also

• کسپه‎ (kuspe, “oil cake”)

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “դիրտ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 670b

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Urdu

Etymology

From Persian درد‎ (dard).

Noun

درد • (dard) m (Hindi spelling दर्द)

1. pain
2. ache
3. affliction
4. pity