جهد

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒa.ha.da/

جَهَدَ • (jahada) I (non-past يَجْهَدُ (yajhadu), verbal noun جَهْد (jahd))

1. to strive, to struggle, to labour, to exert oneself, to take pains, to endeavor (especially in the sense of strenuously, to the utmost of one's ability, etc.)
2. (transitive) to overwork, to overtax, to fatigue, to exhaust

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒahd/

جَهْد • (jahd) m (plural جُهُود (juhūd))

1. verbal noun of جَهَدَ (jahada) (form I)
2. labour, toil, exertion, effort

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒuhd/

جُهْد • (juhd) m

1. strain, exertion, effort
2. power, ability
3. to the limit of, as much as (جُهْدَ (juhda) used as preposition)

   هُوَ أَكَلَ جُهْدَ طَاقَتِهِ.

   huwa ʔakala juhda ṭāqatihi.

   He ate to the limit of his ability.

Borrowed from Arabic جَهَدَ (jahada).

جهد • (jahd)

1. struggle, effort, exertion

   Synonym: کوشش (kušeš)

   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 348”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[1]:

     مایهٔ خوشدلی آنجاست که دلدار آنجاست
     می‌کنم جهد که خود را مگر آنجا فکنم

     māya-yi xwašdilī ānjā-st ki dildār ānjā-st
     mē-kunam jahd ki xwad rā magar ānjā fikanam

     The essence of happiness is there where the beloved is;
     I strive to throw myself there if I can.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “جهد”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

From Arabic جُهْد (juhd).

• IPA^(key): /ʒuhd/, [ʒʊhd]

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جهد • (juhd) m (plural جهود (juhūd))

1. strain, exertion, effort