عاجزی

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian عَاجِزِی ('ājizī), from Arabic عَاجِزٍ (ʕājizin). By surface analysis, عَاجِز ('ājiz, “humble”) +‎ ی (ī)

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)ɑː.d͡ʒɪ.ziː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: عَا‧جِ‧زی

Noun

عَاجِزی • ('ājizī) f (Hindi spelling आजिज़ी)

1. humility
2. submissiveness
3. powerlessness; helplessness

Declension

Declension of عاجزی
	singular	plural
direct	عَاجِزی ('ājizī)	عَاجِزیاں ('ājiziyā̃)
oblique	عَاجِزی ('ājizī)	عَاجِزیوں ('ājiziyō̃)
vocative	عَاجِزی ('ājizī)	عَاجِزیو ('ājiziyō)

Further reading

• “عاجزی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “عاجزی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “عاجزی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “عاجزي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “عاجزي”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “عاجزی”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC