مذاق

Arabic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ðaːq/
  • (Moroccan) IPA^(key): /ma.daːq/

Noun

مَذَاق • (maḏāq) m

1. verbal noun of ذَاقَ (ḏāqa) (form I)
2. tasting
3. taste
4. palate

Declension

Declension of noun مَذَاق (maḏāq)

singular	basic singular triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	مَذَاق maḏāq	الْمَذَاق al-maḏāq	مَذَاق maḏāq
nominative	مَذَاقٌ maḏāqun	الْمَذَاقُ al-maḏāqu	مَذَاقُ maḏāqu
accusative	مَذَاقًا maḏāqan	الْمَذَاقَ al-maḏāqa	مَذَاقَ maḏāqa
genitive	مَذَاقٍ maḏāqin	الْمَذَاقِ al-maḏāqi	مَذَاقِ maḏāqi

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “مذاق”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَذَاق (maḏāq).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ma.ˈðaːq/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mä.ˈzɑːq]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mä.ˈzɑːq]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mä.ˈzɑːq]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mä.ˈzɔːq]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæ.ˈzɒːɢ̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mä.ˈzɔq]

• Rhymes: -aːq

Readings
Classical reading?	maḏāq
Dari reading?	mazāq
Iranian reading?	mazâġ
Tajik reading?	mazoq

Noun

Dari	مذاق
Iranian Persian
Tajik	мазоқ

مذاق • (mazâq)

1. (physical) taste
2. taste, preference
   • 1962, Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, غرب‌زدگی [Occidentosis: A Plague from the West]:

     غرب‌زدگی می‌گویم هم‌چون وبازدگی. و اگر به مذاق خوش آیند نیست بگوییم هم‌چون گرمازدگی یا سرمازدگی؛ امّا نه. دست‌کم چیزی است در حدود سن‌زدگی.

     ġarb-zadegi mi-guyam ham-čun vabâ-zadegi. va agar be mazâq-e xoš âyand nist beguyim ham-čun garmâ-zadegi yâ sarmâ-zadegi; ammâ na. dast-e kam čizi ast dar hodud-e senn-zadegi.

     I say that being struck by the West ["occidentosis"] is like being struck by cholera. And if this is not in good taste [to say], let us say that it is like being struck by the heat or the cold; but no. It is at least something approximately like wheat being struck by weevils.

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “مذاق”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَذَاق (mazāq), from Arabic مَذَاق (maḏāq).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mə.zɑːq/

Noun

مَذاق • (mazāq) m (Hindi spelling मज़ाक़)

1. fun, joke

   میں اسکا برا مذاق برداشت نہیں کروں‌گا۔ ― I will not tolerate his bad joke.

References

• Bahri, Hardev (1989), “مذاق”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.