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معذرت

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Persian

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Etymology

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Arabic عَذَر (ʕaḏar)
Arabic مَعْذِرَة (maʕḏira)bor.
Persian مَعْذِرَت

    Borrowed from Arabic مَعْذِرَة (maʕḏira), from عَذَر (ʕaḏar).

    Pronunciation

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    Readings
    Classical reading? ma'zirat
    Dari reading? ma'zirat
    Iranian reading? ma'zerat
    Tajik reading? ma'zirat

    Noun

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    معذرت • (ma'zirat / ma'zerat) (Tajik spelling маъзират)

    1. excuse; apology
    2. forgiveness, pardon
      Synonym: پوزش (pūzeš)
      • c. 1670, Ṣāʾib-i Tabrīzī, “Ghazal 734”, in دیوان [Dīvān]‎[1]:
        صائب مباش در صدد معذرت که نیست
        بهتر ز انفعال، شفیعی گناه را
        sā'ib ma-bāš dar sadad-i ma'zirat ki nēst
        bihtar zi infi'āl šafī'-ē gunāh rā
        Sā'ib, do not seek forgiveness! For there is not
        Any intercessor for sins who is better than shame.
        (Classical Persian romanization)

    Derived terms

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    Urdu

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    Etymology

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    Etymology tree
    Arabic عَذَر (ʕaḏar)
    Arabic مَعْذِرَة (maʕḏira)bor.
    Classical Persian مَعْذِرَت (ma'zirat)bor.
    Urdu مَعْذَرَت

      Borrowed from Classical Persian مَعْذِرَت (ma'zirat), borrowed from Arabic مَعْذِرَة (maʕḏira), from عَذَر (ʕaḏar).[1][2][3] First attested in c. 1609 as Middle Hindi معذرت (m'ẕrt /⁠ma'ẕirat⁠/).[4]

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      Noun

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      مَعْذَرَت • (ma'zarat) f (Hindi spelling माज़रत)

      1. apology, sorry; excuse
      2. (formal) pardon (ie. a rejection of an invite or offering)

      Declension

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      Declension of معذرت
      singular plural
      direct مَعْذَرَت (ma'zarat) مَعْذَرَتیں (ma'zaratẽ)
      oblique مَعْذَرَت (ma'zarat) مَعْذَرَتوں (ma'zaratõ)
      vocative مَعْذَرَت (ma'zarat) مَعْذَرَتو (ma'zarato)

      Interjection

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      مَعْذَرَت • (ma'zarat) (Hindi spelling माज़रत)

      1. apologies
      2. excuse me

      References

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      1. ^ Platts, John T. (1884), “معذرت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
      2. ^ Fallon, S. W. (1879), “معذرت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
      3. ^ John Shakespear (1834), “معذرت”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
      4. ^ “معذرت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

      Further reading

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      • “معذرت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
      • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “معذرت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
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