درد

See also: دزد‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian درد‎ (dard).

Noun

درد • (dert)

1. pain, suffering, agony
2. disease, illness
3. affliction, woe; trouble
4. annoyance
5. grievance

Derived terms

• دردلو‎ (dertli)

Descendants

• Turkish: dert

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “درد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 568
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “درد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 895

Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian dlt' (dard, “pain”).

Pronunciation

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

 

• (Dari, formal/KBL) IPA^(key): [d̪äɹd̪]

• (Dari, formal/KBL) IPA^(key): [d̪äɹd̪]
  • (Hazaragi/approx.) IPA^(key): [d̪äɹd̪̥]

• (Iran, formal/TEH) IPA^(key): [d̪æɹd̪̥]

• (Tajik, formal/DUS) IPA^(key): [d̪äɹd̪]

• Phonetic Persian:

Traditional: [دَرْد]‎

Iranian: [دَرْد]‎

Readings
Classical reading?	dard
Dari reading?	dard
Iranian reading?	dard
Tajik reading?	dard

Noun

Dari	درد
Iranian Persian
Tajik	дард

درد • (dard)

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

Derived terms

(verbs)

• درد کردن‎ (dard kardan)
• درد گرفتن‎ (dard gereftan)

 

(others)

• اهل درد‎ (ahl-e dard)
• دردناک‎ (dardnâk)
• دردی‎ (dardi)

 

Descendants

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: dərd
• → Hindustani:

  Urdu: درد‎ (dard)

  Hindi: दर्द (dard)

• → Bengali: দরদ (dorod)
• → Kazakh: дерт (dert)
• → Northern Kurdish: derd
• → Middle Armenian: դարդ (dard), տարտ (tart), դերդ (derd), տէրտ (tērt)
  • → Armenian: դարդ (dard)
• → Ottoman Turkish: درد‎ (dert)
  • Turkish: dert
  • Albanian: dert
  • Greek: ντέρτι (dérti)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਦਰਦ (darad)

  Shahmukhi script: دَرَد‎ (darad)

• → Zazaki: derd
• → Uyghur: دەرد‎ (derd)
• → Uzbek: dard

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 (dordi)

Pronunciation

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

 

• (Dari, formal/KBL) IPA^(key): [d̪ʊɹd̪]

• (Dari, formal/KBL) IPA^(key): [d̪ʊɹd̪]
  • (Hazaragi/approx.) IPA^(key): [d̪uɹd̪̥]

• (Iran, formal/TEH) IPA^(key): [d̪oɹd̪̥]

• (Tajik, formal/DUS) IPA^(key): [d̪uɹd̪]

• Phonetic Persian:

Traditional: [دُرْد]‎

Iranian: [دُرْد]‎

Readings
Classical reading?	durd
Dari reading?	durd
Iranian reading?	dord
Tajik reading?	durd

Noun

درد • (dord)

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)
• → Northern Kurdish: tort

See also

• کسپه‎ (kospe, “oil cake”)

Further reading

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

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian درد‎ (dard), from Middle Persian dlt' (dard, “pain”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪əɾd̪/
• Rhymes: -əɾd̪

Noun

دَرْد • (dard) m (Hindi spelling दर्द)

1. pain; ache
2. (by extension) symptom, illness
3. suffering
4. (figurative):
   1. affliction
   2. pity
   3. sorrow, grief

Declension

Declension of درد
	singular	plural
direct	درد (dard)	درد (dard)
oblique	درد (dard)	دردوں‎ (dardō̃)
vocative	درد (dard)	دردو‎ (dardō)

Further reading

• “درد”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “درد”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “درد”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.