درد
Ottoman Turkish
    
    
Noun
    
درد • (dert)
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”), from Proto-Iranian *dar-ta- (“torn, burning, pain”),[1] from Proto-Iranian *darH- (“to have pain”), from either Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to tear, split”) or Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to split, suffer, be in pain”), the latter which Cheung considers to be related to the former.[2][3] See also دریدن (daridan, “to ravage, attack”).
Pronunciation
    
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [daɾð]
 
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [d̪äɹd̪]
- (Kabuli) IPA(key): [d̪äɹd̪]
 - (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [d̪äɹd̪̥]
 
 
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [d̪æɹd̪̥]
 
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [d̪äɹd̪]
 
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | dard | 
| Dari reading? | dard | 
| Iranian reading? | dard | 
| Tajik reading? | dard | 
Derived terms
    
(verbs)
(others)
Descendants
    
- → Azerbaijani: dərd
 - → Bengali: দরদ (dorod)
 - → Gujarati: દર્દ (dard)
 - → Hindustani:
 - → 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
 
 - → Punjabi:
 - → Zazaki: derd
 - → Uyghur: دەرد (derd)
 - → Uzbek: dard
 
References
    
- Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 342
 - Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 61
 - Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 89
 
Etymology 2
    
From Proto-Iranian *dr̥ti- (“manure, feces”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰṛ-to-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreyd- (“to have diarrhea”), whence also English dirt, Old Norse dríta (“to defecate”), and Russian дриста́ть (dristátʹ, “to shart”). Possibly related to Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃- (“to spring, leap”) (whence perhaps Sanskrit धारा (dhārā, “current, torrent”)).[1]
Compare the Iranian borrowings: Aramaic דּוּרְדָּא / דֻּרְדָּא (durdā, “sediment; lees”), in plural דּוּרְדֵּי / דֻּרְדֵּי (durdī); Arabic دُرْدِيّ (durdiyy, “liquid sediment, lees, amurca”).
Alternative forms
    
- دردی (dordi)
 
Pronunciation
    
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [duɾð]
 
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [d̪ʊɹd̪]
- (Kabuli) IPA(key): [d̪ʊɹd̪]
 - (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [d̪uɹd̪̥]
 
 
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [d̪oɹd̪̥]
 
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [d̪uɹd̪]
 
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | durd | 
| Dari reading? | durd | 
| Iranian reading? | dord | 
| Tajik reading? | durd | 
Descendants
    
- → Middle Armenian: դիրտ (dirt), տիրտ (tirt), դուրտ (durt), տուրտին (turtin), դրտին (drtin), դրուրտ (drurt), դուրտին (durtin) (see there for further descendants)[2]
 - → Armenian: դըռդի (dəṙdi)
 - → Ottoman Turkish: طورتی (tortu)
 - → Azerbaijani: torta
 - → Georgian: დურდო (durdo)
 - → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: [script needed] (dürtʿ)
 - → Northern Kurdish: tort
 
See also
    
- کسپه (kospe, “oil cake”)
 
References
    
- Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 356
 - Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “դիրտ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, 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)
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 (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
 - “درد”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
 - Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “درد”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.