لذت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَذَّة (laḏḏa, “deliciousness”).

Noun

لذت • (lezzet) (plural الذت)

1. taste, savour, especially a sweet or pleasant one

   Synonyms: (taste) چاشنی (çeşni), ذوق (zevk), طات (tat), مزه (meze), نمك (nemek)

2. power of any thing to give pleasure or delight

Derived terms

• لذتسز (lezzetsiz, “tasteless”)
• لذتلنمك (lezzetlenmek, “to become savory”)
• لذتلی (lezzetli, “savory, flavoured”)

Descendants

• Turkish: lezzet
• → Armenian: լազաթ (lazatʻ)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “lezzet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2962
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “لذت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1076
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Gustus”, 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 677
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “لذة”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4164
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “lezzet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “لذت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1630

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَذَّة (laḏḏa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /laðˈðat/, /laz.ˈzat/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [läzˈzät̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [läzˈzät̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [läzˈzät̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [läzˈzät̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [lez.zǽt̪ʰ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [läzˈzät̪]

• Rhymes: -at

Readings
Classical reading?	laḏḏat, lazzat
Dari reading?	lazzat
Iranian reading?	lezzat
Tajik reading?	lazzat

• Audio (Iran):

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Noun

Dari	لذت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	лаззат

لذت • (lezzat)

1. pleasure
2. delight
3. enjoyment

Derived terms

• اوج لذت جنسی (owj-e lezzat-e jensi)
• لذت بردن (lezzat bordan)

Descendants

• Iranian Persian: لِذَّت (lezzat)
• Tajik: лаззат (lazzat)
• → Bashkir: ләззәт (läzzät)
• → Kazakh: ләззат (läzzat)
• → Tatar: ләззәт (läzzät)
• → Turkmen: lezzet
• → Uyghur: لەززەت (lezzet)
• → Uzbek: lazzat

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic لَذَّ (laḏḏa)

Arabic لَذَّة (laḏḏa)bor.

Classical Persian لَذَّت (lazzat)bor.

Urdu لَذَّت

Borrowed from Classical Persian لَذَّت (lazzat), borrowed from Arabic لَذَّة (laḏḏa), from لَذَّ (laḏḏa). First attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi لذت (lẕt /⁠lazzat⁠/).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ləz.zət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪

Noun

لَذَّت • (lazzat) f (formal plural لَذّات (lazzāt), Hindi spelling लज़्ज़त)

1. delight; pleasure

   Synonyms: حَظ (haz), لُطْف (lutf), مَزَہ (maza), سُوَاد (sūād)

2. taste; flavour; deliciousness (of food)

   Synonyms: ذائِقَہ (zāiqa), مَزَہ (maza), سُوَاد (sūād), چَسْکا (caskā)

Declension

Declension of لذت

	singular	plural
direct	لَذَّت (lazzat)	لَذَّتیں (lazzatẽ)
oblique	لَذَّت (lazzat)	لَذَّتوں (lazzatõ)
vocative	لَذَّت (lazzat)	لَذَّتو (lazzato)

Related terms

Urdu terms derived from the Arabic root ل ذ ذ (0 c, 1 e)

Further reading

• “لذت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “لذت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 545
• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “لذت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1043
• John Shakespear (1834), “لذت”, 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, page 1513