جدید

See also: جديد and حديد

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَدِيد (jadīd).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? jadīd
Dari reading? jadīd
Iranian reading? jadid
Tajik reading? jadid

Adjective

Dari جدید
Iranian Persian
Tajik ҷадид

جدید • (jadid) (comparative جدیدتَر, superlative جدیدتَرین)

  1. new, recent
    می‌خوام یه زبان جدید یاد بگیرم. (colloquial Iranian)
    mi-xâm ye zabân-e jadid yâd begiram.
    I want to learn a new language.

Usage notes

  • جدید (jadid) usually means "newly acquired", and نو (now) usually means "newly made". کتاب نو (ketâb-e now) means a book just published, while کتاب جدید (ketâb-e jadid) could mean an old book which the speaker has recently bought.

Descendants

  • Hindustani:
    Hindi: जदीद (jadīd)
    Urdu: جَدِید (jadīd)
  • Punjabi: jadīd
    Gurmukhi script: ਜਦੀਦ
    Shahmukhi script: جَدِید
  • Sindhi: jadīdu
    Arabic script: جَدِيدُ
    Devanagari script: जदीदु

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian جدید (jadīd), from Arabic جَدِيد (jadīd).

Pronunciation

Adjective

جَدِید • (jadīd) (Hindi spelling जदीद)

  1. modern, recent

Further reading

  • جدید”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “جديد”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 378
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “جديد”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 226
  • جدید”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.