معمولی

Persian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic عَمِلَ (ʕamila)

Arabic مَعْمُول (maʕmūl)bor.

Persian

Persian

Persian

From (ma'mul) +‎ (-i).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /maʔ.muː.ˈliː/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäʔ.muː.líː]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mɑː.muː.líː]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mɔː.mu.lí]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæʔ.muː.líː]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mäʔ.mu.lí]

Readings
Classical reading^?	ma'mūlī
Dari reading^?	ma'mūlī
Iranian reading^?	ma'muli
Tajik reading^?	ma'muli

Adjective

معمولی • (ma'muli)

ordinary, commonplace
yek parande-ye ma'muli dar iran, gonješk ast.
Sparrows are common birds in Iran.

Descendants

→ Bengali: মামুলী (mamuli)
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: मामूली (māmūlī)

Urdu: مَعْمُولِی (ma'mūlī)
→ Punjabi:
Gurmukhi script: ਮਾਮੂਲੀ (māmūlī)

Shahmukhi script: مَعْمُولِی (maʻmūlī)

Further reading

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “معمولی”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “معمولی”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic عَمِلَ (ʕamila)

Arabic مَعْمُول (maʕmūl)bor.

Persian

Persian

Classical Persian (ma'mūlī)bor.

Urdu مَعْمُولی (ma'mūlī)

Borrowed from Classical Persian (ma'mūlī). By surface analysis, مَعْمُول (ma'mūl, “usual”) +‎ ی (ī).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mɑː.muː.liː/
Rhymes: -iː
Hyphenation: مَع‧مُو‧لی

Adjective

مَعْمُولی • (ma'mūlī) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling मामूली)

Further reading

“maa'muulii”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “معمولی”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]