مکمل

Persian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic مُكَمِّل (mukammil).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? mukammil
Dari reading? mukammil
Iranian reading? mokammel
Tajik reading? mukammil

Noun

مکمل • (mokammel)

  1. supplement (now especially nutritional supplements)
    مکمل گلوتامینmokammel-e gelutâminglutamine supplement

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic مُكَمَّل (mukammal).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? mukammal
Dari reading? mukammal
Iranian reading? mokammal
Tajik reading? mukammal

Adjective

مُکَمَّل • (mokammal) (comparative مُکَمَّل‌تَر, superlative مُکَمَّل‌تَرین)

  1. perfect, perfected
Descendants
  • Azerbaijani: mükəmməl
  • Gujarati: મુકમ્મલ (mukammal)
  • Middle Hindi: مکمل (mkml /⁠mukammal⁠/)
  • Ottoman Turkish: مكمل

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مُکَمَّل (mukammal), from Arabic مُكَمَّل (mukammal).[1] First attested in c. 1765[2] as Middle Hindi مکمل (mkml /⁠mukammal⁠/).

Pronunciation

Adjective

مُکَمَّل • (mukammal) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling मुकम्मल)

  1. complete (ie. in its entirety; accomplished, finalised; perfected)
  2. finished (ie. to come to an end; concluded)
  3. entire, total
  4. full, overflowing

References

  1. ^ Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Agnieszka (2008) “mukammal”, in Perso-Arabic Loanwords in Hindustani, Part 1 Dictionary, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →ISBN, page 592.
  2. ^ مکمل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Further reading

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

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu مکمل (mukammal).

Adjective

مکمل (mukammal)

  1. full, complete
  2. all, every, everything, entire, whole
    Synonym: پورا (pōrā)