مرد

مَرَدَ • (marada) I (non-past يَمْرُدُ (yamrudu), verbal noun مَرَادَة (marāda) or مُرُودَة (murūda))

1. to be bold
2. to be rebellious
3. to be accustomed [with عَلَى (ʕalā) ‘to something’]
4. to suckle
5. to disgrace (someone)

• مِرِّيد (mirrīd, “a rebel or bold person”)
• مُرُود (murūd, “mutiny, rebellion”)
• مَارِد (mārid, “mutinous, rebel”)

مَرُدَ • (maruda) I (non-past يَمْرُدُ (yamrudu), verbal noun مُرُود (murūd) or مَرَادَة (marāda))

1. to be rebellious [with عَلَى (ʕalā) ‘about something’]

Form-II causative of مَرَدَ (marada, “to be constant”).

مَرَّدَ • (marrada) II (non-past يُمَرِّدُ (yumarridu), verbal noun تَمْرِيد (tamrīd)) (causative)

1. to polish, to level

مَرِدَ • (marida) I (non-past يَمْرَدُ (yamradu), verbal noun مَرَد (marad) or مُرْدَة (murda) or مُرُودَة (murūda))

1. to be beardless
2. to be callow or inexperienced

Unknown, possibly from a Middle Iranian cognate of Persian مورد (murd, “myrtle”). The “rebellion” senses of the root م ر د (m r d) may then be figurative after the tonic properties of the myrtle or the thermogenic, aphrodisiac and purgative effects of the toothbrush tree fruits.

مَرْد • (mard) m

1. fruit of the toothbrush tree

   Synonyms: بَرِير (barīr), كَبَاث (kabāṯ), خَمْط (ḵamṭ)

مرد • (mard)

1. man (male human)

Borrowed from Persian مرد (mard).

مرد • (merd)

1. man; a human male

مرد • (merd)

1. man of his word
2. valiant

• Turkish: mert

مرد • (mard) m

1. man, male, person
2. brave man, courageous man
3. brave, noble and decent person, real man

• Pashtoon, Zeeya A. (2009) “مرد”, in Pashto–English Dictionary, Hyattsville: Dunwoody Press

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (mlt' /⁠mard⁠/), [Book Pahlavi needed] (GBRA /⁠mard⁠/), from Old Persian 𐎶𐎼𐎫𐎡𐎹 (martiya), from Proto-Iranian *mŕ̥tah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mŕ̥tas, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥tós (“dead, mortal”), from *mer- (“to die”); whence also مردن (mordan, “to die”), and مردم (mardom, “people”).^[1] Sense 2 is a semantic loan from English man.

Cognates include Northern Kurdish mêr (“husband”), Northern Luri مێرںە (mırə, “husband”), Pashto مېړۀ (meṛə, “husband”), Sanskrit मर्त (marta, “mortal, man”), Old Armenian մարդ (mard, “man”), Ancient Greek βροτός (brotós, “mortal”), and Latin mortuus (“dead”)

• (dialectal, Khesht, Konartakhteh, Dashtestan) IPA^(key): /meɾd/

• Audio (Iran):

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• Rhymes: -ard

مرد • (mard) (plural مردان, or مردها)

1. man (adult male human)

   یک مردِ جوان ― yek mard-e javan ― A young man

3. (in the vocative) used to address a man

   چطوری مرد؟ ― četowri mard? ― How are you doing, man?

4. a member of a team or group, usually in plural

   یوآخیم لو و مردانش برزیل را هفت بر یک شکست دادند.

   yu-âxim low û mardânaš berezil râ haft bar yek šekast dâdand.

   Joachim Löw and his men beat Brazil 7-1.

• → Azerbaijani: mərd, Mərdan
• → Bengali: মরদ (morod)
• → Gujarati: મરદ (marad), મર્દ (mard)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: मर्द (mard)

  Urdu: مرد (mard)

• → Ottoman Turkish: مرد (merd, mert)
  • Turkish: mert
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਮਰਦ (marad)

  Shahmukhi script: مرد (mard)

• → Uyghur: مەرت (mert)
• → Uzbek: mard

• زن (zan, “woman, wife”), پسر (pesar, “boy, son”), پدر (pedar, “father”), برادر (barâdar, “brother”), خواهر (xâhar, “sister”), دختر (doxtar, “daughter, girl”)

مرد • (mord)

1. past stem of مردن (mordan)

Borrowed from Classical Persian مرد (mard).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /məɾd̪/
• Rhymes: -əɾd̪

مَرْد • (mard) m (Hindi spelling मर्द)

1. man