آزاد

Probably from Persian آزاد.

آزاد (āzād) m

1. free

Borrowed from Classical Persian آزاد (āzād).

• IPA^(key): /aːzaːd/

آزاد • (āzād) m or f (Devanagari आज़ाद)

1. free
2. independent
3. unrestrained

• یَلہٕ (yalụ)
• مۄکُل (mọkul)

• S. K. Toshakhani, J. Lal Kaul, Mohiuddin Hajni, Prithvi Nath Pushp, Akhtar Mohiuddin (1968-1980) Kashir Dictionary Vol 1‎^[1] (in Kashmiri), volume 1, Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages, page 150

آزاد (âzâd)

1. Arabic spelling of âzâd (“free”)

• ազատ (azad) — Armeno-Turkish

From Persian آزاد (âzâd), likely before the Ottoman Turkish era because the word is attested in other Turkic languages since the 11th century.

آزاد • (azad)

1. independent, unimpeded
2. liberal
3. free

• آزادسز (azadsız)
• آزادلق (azadlık)
• آزادلمق (azadlamak)

• Turkish: azat
• → Albanian: azat
• → Greek: αζάτι (azáti)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “azat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 399
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “azat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

From Middle Persian ʾcʾt' (/⁠āzād⁠/, “noble; free”), from Old Persian *āzātah, a northwestern borrowing from Proto-Iranian *āzātah. Cognate with Avestan 𐬁𐬰𐬁𐬙𐬀 (āzāta, “noble”), Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫀𐫀𐫉𐫀𐫅 (ʾʾzʾd /⁠āzād⁠/), and Parthian 𐭀𐭆𐭀𐭕 (ʾzʾt /⁠āzāt⁠/, “noble”). Akin to Old Armenian ազատ (azat), Georgian აზატი (azaṭi), Iranian borrowings.

Ultimately from the past participle of Proto-Iranian *zan- (“to be born”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-, originally meaning “born (into the clan)” and, by extension, “noble” and “free”.

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آزاد • (âzâd) (comparative آزادتَر, superlative آزادتَرین)

1. independent, unimpeded
2. liberal
3. free
   • 1932, محمد اقبال [Muhammad Iqbāl], “The Martian Astronomer comes out of the Observatory”, in Arthur J. Arberry, transl., جاویدنامه [Jāvīdnāma, Book of Eternity]‎^[2]:

     نیست یزدان را از آن عالم خبر
     من ندیدم عالمے آزادتر

     nēst yazdān rā az ān 'ālam xabar
     man na-dīdam 'ālam-ē āzād-tar

     God Himself knows nothing of that world;
     I have never seen a world more free

     (Indo-Persian script)

4. loose

• آزادی (âzâdi)
• آزاده (âzâde)
• آزادانه (âzâdâne)

آزاد • (âzâd)

1. free
2. loose

• Tajik: озод (ozod)
  • → Uzbek: ozod
• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܵܙܵܕ (āzād)
• → Azerbaijani: azad (azad)
  • → Udi: азад (azad)?
• → Bengali: আজাদ (azad)
• → Crimean Tatar: azat
• → Kazakh: азат (azat)
• → Khalaj: âzâd
• → Gagauz: azat
• → Gujarati: આજાદ (ājād)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: आज़ाद (āzād)

  Urdu: آزاد (āzād)

• → Udi: азад (azad)?
• → Kurdish:
  • Central Kurdish: ئازاد (azad)
  • Northern Kurdish: azad
• → Ottoman Turkish: آزاد (azad), ազատ (azad) — Armeno-Turkish
  • Turkish: azat
  • → Albanian: azat
  • → Greek: αζάτι (azáti)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਆਜ਼ਾਦ (āzād)

  Shahmukhi script: آزاد (āzād)

• → Sindhi: آزاد (āzād)
• → Tatar: азат (azat)
• → Turkmen: azat

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “āzād”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
• “ĀZĀD (Iranian Nobility)”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, New York, 6 January 2015 (last accessed)
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ազատ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press

Borrowed from Classical Persian آزاد (āzād).

آزاد • (āzād) (Devanagari आज़ादु)

1. free
2. unrestrained

Borrowed from Classical Persian آزَاد (āzād).^[1]

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑː.zɑːd̪/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːd̪
• Hyphenation: آ‧زاد

آزاد • (āzād) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling आज़ाद)

1. free, independent
2. liberated
3. (by extension) safe (from fear, worry etc.)
4. (by extension) released, freed (from enslavement or bondage etc.)
5. (politics) self-governing, independent
6. unrestrained
7. progressive, liberal (often euphemistic)
8. (rare) universal

• “آزاد”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “آزاد”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]