آلودگی

Compound of آلوده (âlude, “polluted”) +‎ گی (gi, nominalization suffix)

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آلودگی • (âludegi)

1. pollution
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 30:

     چون که مومن آینهی مومن بود
     روی او ز آلودگی ایمن بود

     čōn ki mu'min āyina-ē mu'min buwad
     rōy-i ō za ālūdagī īmin buwad

     Since the true believer is a mirror for the true believer,
     his face is safe from defilement.

2. contamination

Borrowed from Classical Persian آلُودَگِی (ālūdagī). First attested in c. 1649 as Middle Hindi آلودگی (ālvdgy /⁠ālūdagī⁠/).^[1]

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑː.luː.d̪ə.ɡiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: آ‧لُو‧دَ‧گی

آلُودَگی • (ālūdagī) f (Hindi spelling आलूदगी)

1. pollution
2. contamination
3. impurity

• “آلودگی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “آلوده”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 16
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “آلودگی”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]