مشقت

From Arabic مَشَقَّة (mašaqqa).

مشقت • (meşakkat) (plural مشاق)

1. hardship; suffering; trouble

• Turkish: meşakkat
• Crimean Tatar: meşaqqat

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مشقت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1174
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مشقت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1869
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

Borrowed from Arabic مَشَقَّة (mašaqqa).

مشقت • (mašaqqat) (plural مشاق (mašâqq))

1. toil, hardship, suffering, trouble
   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 265:

     از درد من مشقت مجنون نمونه‌ای
     وز خوبی تو قصه یوسف حکایتی

     az dard-i man mašaqqat-i majnūn namūna'ē
     w-az xūbī-yi tō qissa-yi yūsuf hikāyatē

     The suffering of Majnun is a [mere] example of my pain,
     And the tale of Joseph is a [mere] story of your beauty.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

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

Borrowed from Classical Persian مشقت (mašaqqat), itself from Arabic مَشَقَّة (mašaqqa).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mə.ʃəqː.ət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪

مَشَقَّت • (maśaqqat) f (Hindi spelling मशक़्क़त)

1. toil, trouble

   Synonym: مِحْنَت (mihnat)

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