ضد

From the root ض د د (ḍ d d). Likely related to Hebrew צד (tsád).

• IPA^(key): /dˤidd/

ضِدّ • (ḍidd) m (plural أَضْدَاد (ʔaḍdād))

1. opposite, contrast

   اَلسَّوَادُ ضِدُّ الْبَيَاضِ ― as-sawādu ḍiddu l-bayāḍi ― The black is an opposite of the white.

2. alike, equal, match, counterpart

   لَيْسَ لَهُ ضِدٌّ فِي ٱجْتِهَادِهِ

   laysa lahu ḍiddun fī jtihādihi

   There is no equivalent to his diligence.

3. (semantics) word with two opposite meanings; auto-antonym
4. antonym
5. adversary, opponent
6. antitoxin, antidote, anti-

• → Azerbaijani: zidd
• → Crimean Tatar: zıt
• → Karaim: зыт
• → Krymchak: зыт
• → Ottoman Turkish: ضد (żıd, żıt)

  > Turkish: zıt (inherited)

• → Tatar: зыт (zıt)
• → Uyghur: زىت (zit)
• → Uzbek: zid

• IPA^(key): /dˤid.da/

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ضِدَّ • (ḍidda)

1. against

• IPA^(key): /dˤadd/

From Arabic ضِدّ (ḍidd).

ضد • (ḍadd) m (plural ضدود (ḍdūd) or ضدودة (ḍdūda))

1. opposite, contrast
2. antonym

From Arabic ضِدَّ (ḍidda).

ضد • (ḍadd)

1. against

Borrowed from Arabic ضِدّ (ḍidd).

ضد • (zedd)

1. opposite
2. contrary
3. adversarial

ضد • (zedd)

1. opposition
2. contrary
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3865:

     که ز ضدها ضدها آمد پدید
     در سویدا روشنایی آفرید

     ki zi zidd-hā zidd-hā āmad padīd
     dar suwaydā rōšanāyī afarīd

     For contraries are manifested by means of contraries:
     in the black core (of the heart) He (God) created the light (of love).

3. adversary

• → Marathi: जिद्द (jidda)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਜਿਦ (jid)

  Shahmukhi script: ضد (zid)

From ضد (zedd) + ezafe.

ضد • (zedd-e)

1. against

From Arabic ضِدّ (ḍidd).

• IPA^(key): /dˤidd/, [dˤɪdˤ]

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ضدّ • (ḍidd)

1. against

First attested in c. 1665 as Middle Hindi ضد (zid, zidd), borrowed from Classical Persian ضِدّ (zidd), itself from Arabic ضِدّ (ḍidd). Cognate with Punjabi ضِدّ (ẓidd).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /zɪd̪/

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• Rhymes: -ɪd̪

ضِد • (zid) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling ज़िद)

1. (formal) contrary; opposite
   • 1987, آنریبل سیّد امیر علی [Honourable Sayyid Ameer Ali], translated by محمدؐ ہادی حسین [Muhammad Hadi Hussain], رُوحِ اِسْلَام [rūh-i islām, The Spirit of Islam]‎^[1], Lahore, pages 16-17:

     موت کے بعد انسان کی تقدیر کے بارے میں بدھ مت کا جو تصور تھا وہ برہمی نظریوں کی عین ضد تھا

     maut ke ba'd insān kī taqdīr ke bāre mẽ budh mat kā jo tasavvar thā vo barhamī nazariyõ kī 'ain zid thā

     The Buddhist concept of the destiny of man after death was completely opposite to Brahmanist theories.

ضِد • (zid) f (Hindi spelling ज़िद)

1. stubbornness (connoted with ego; anger)
   • 1986, شیخ محمد عبد اللہ [Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah], آتِشِ چِنار [ātiś-i cinār]‎^[2], Srinagar, →OCLC, page 514:

     انھوں نے بڑے اصرار کے ساتھ مجھ سے کہا کہ "ضِد چھوڑ دو۔ اِس معمولی بات پر معاملات کو بگڑنے نہ دو۔"

     unhõ ne baṛe isrār ke sāth mujh se kahā ki "zid choṛ do. is ma'mūlī bāt par mu'āmalāt ko bigaṛne na do."

     He insistently told me "Leave this stubbornness of yours. Don't let affairs deteriorate over this trivial matter."

2. egotism, selfishness
3. opposition, enmity, contrariety
4. (semantics) antonym

• “ضد”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “ضد”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ضد”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “ضد”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 748
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “ضد”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 835
• John Shakespear (1834) “ضد”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC