حسد

Compare Hebrew חֶסֶד (khésed, “shame”).

حَسَدَ • (ḥasada) I (non-past يَحْسِدُ (yaḥsidu) or يَحْسُدُ (yaḥsudu), verbal noun حَسَد (ḥasad) or حُسُود (ḥusūd) or حَسَادَة (ḥasāda) or حَسِيدَة (ḥasīda))

1. to envy, to be jealous of
   • Qur'an 4:54

     أَمْ يَحْسُدُونَ النَّاسَ عَلَىٰ مَا آتَاهُمُ اللَّهُ مِن فَضْلِهِ

     ʔam yaḥsudūna an-nāsa ʕalā mā ʔātāhumu l-lahu min faḍlihi

     Or do they envy people for what Allah has graciously furnished them with?

   • Quran 113:05

     وَمِنْ شَرِّ حَاسِدٍ إِذَا حَسَدَ

     wamin šarri ḥāsidin ʔiḏā ḥasada

     And from the evil of the envious when they envy

2. (proscribed) to curse with the evil eye through envy

   Synonyms: عَانَ (ʕāna), نَجَأَ (najaʔa)

حَسَد • (ḥasad) m

1. verbal noun of حَسَدَ (ḥasada) (form I)
2. envy
3. (proscribed) the evil eye

   Synonym: عَيْن (ʕayn)

It is common to use the word similarly to the English envy, that is, without supernatural connotations. In religious and folklore-related contexts, however, the word is almost exclusively used to denote hateful and malicious thoughts and feelings that purportedly curse the envied with العَيْن (al-ʕayn, “the [evil] eye”) and cause them myriad afflictions. As such, it is often idiomatically combined with حِقْد (ḥiqd, “ill will, malice”) for their consonance and like semantic fields since حِقْد (ḥiqd) particularly highlights the hidden and dissimulated nature of the hatred and loathing of the referent. Other commonly collocated words include غِلّ (ḡill, “concealed animosity and hate often with hidden injurious intent, spite, malice”), غَيْظ (ḡayẓ, “hateful or envious fury, bitterness, rage, resentment”), بَغْضَاء (baḡḍāʔ, “burning hatred, loathing, aversion, rancor, detestation, malevolence, hostility, antagonism”), and ضَغِينَة (ḍaḡīna, “dissembled extreme hate and malice, venom”).

• → Ottoman Turkish: حسد
  • → Turkish: haset
• → Urdu: حسد

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “حسد”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen

Borrowed from Arabic حَسَد (ḥasad).

حسد • (hasad)

1. envy, jealousy
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 809:

     بو الحکم نامش بد و بو جهل شد
     ای بسا اهل از حسد نااهل شد

     Bū-l-Hakam nām-aš bud u Bu-Jahl šud
     ay basā ahl az hasad nā-ahl šud

     His name was Abu ’l-Hakam, and he became Abú Jahl:
     oh, many a worthy has become unworthy because of envy.

2. grudge

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

• IPA^(key): /ħa.sad/, [ˈħa.sad]

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From Arabic حَسَدَ (ḥasada).

حسد • (ḥasad) I (present بحسد (biḥsid), active participle حاسد (ḥāsed))

1. to envy, to be envious

   Synonym: غار (ḡār)

From Arabic حَسَد (ḥasad).

حسد • (ḥasad) m

1. envy

   Synonym: غيرة (ḡēre)

From Arabic حَسَد (ḥasad).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɦə.səd̪/

حَسَد • (hasad) m (Hindi spelling हसद)

1. jealousy, envy, malevolence, jealous
2. emulation, ambition

• “حسد”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “حسد”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.