حراج

Arabic

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Persian

Noun

حَراج • (ḥarāj) m

(uncommon) sale, discount or auction
Synonym: مُزَايَدَة (muzāyada)

Etymology 2

Noun

حِرَاج • (ḥirāj) pl

plural of variety of حَرَج (ḥaraj, “woods”)

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian. Further etymology uncertain, perhaps of Egyptian origin.^[1]^[2] Said to be unrelated to Arabic ح ر ج (ḥ r j) (“narrow, constricted, difficult”), but this is disputed. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈha.ɾaːd͡ʒ/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hǽ.ɾɑːd͡ʒ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔǽ.ɾɑːd͡ʒ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔǽ.ɾɔːd͡ʒ̥]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [hǽ.ɹɒːd͡ʒ̥]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [hǽ.ɾɔd͡ʒ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	hárāj
Dari reading^?	harāj
Iranian reading^?	harâj
Tajik reading^?	haroj

(Iran, uncommon) IPA^(key): /haˈɾɑːd͡ʒ/

Noun


Iranian Persian	حراج
Dari	حراج
Tajik	ҳароҷ

حراج • (harāj / harâj)

sale, discount or auction
Synonym: تخفیف (taxfif)

Fardā yek harāj dar bāzār bargozār mishavad.
Tomorrow a sale will be held at the market.
(dated) bazaar
(archaic) exclamation made when an item is sold at auction
(obsolete) troop of camels

Verb


Iranian Persian	حراج
Dari	حراج
Tajik	ҳароҷ

حراج • (harāj / harâj)

(transitive) to sell at a discount
Tasmim gereftand tamām-e mahsulāt rā harāj konand.
They decided to discount all the products.
(transitive) to auction

Synonyms

مزایده

References

^ Sayyed Mohammad Ali (1926) “حراج”, in فرهنگ نظام [Farhang-e Nezam, The Nezam Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Persian), Hyderabad, page 501: “این لفظ عربی نیست در عربی حراج بمعنی گناه وگناه است که با این معنی مناسبت ندارد و این لفظ را مصر یها ساخته و ایرانها تقلید کرده اند۔ ― This word is not Arabic; in Arabic, "haraj" means "sin" or "wrongdoing," which does not align with this meaning. This term was coined by Egyptians and adopted by Iranians.”
^ Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “حراج”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

Bibliography

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “حراج”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “حراج”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

[1] Sayyed Mohammad Ali (1926) “حراج”, in فرهنگ نظام [Farhang-e Nezam, The Nezam Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Persian), Hyderabad, page 501: “این لفظ عربی نیست در عربی حراج بمعنی گناه وگناه است که با این معنی مناسبت ندارد و این لفظ را مصر یها ساخته و ایرانها تقلید کرده اند۔ ― This word is not Arabic; in Arabic, "haraj" means "sin" or "wrongdoing," which does not align with this meaning. This term was coined by Egyptians and adopted by Iranians.”

[2] Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “حراج”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

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