کارگر

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian kʾrgr. By surface analysis, کار (“work”) +‎ ـگَر (“-er”).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? kārgar
Dari reading? kārgar
Iranian reading? kârgar
Tajik reading? korgar
  • Audio (Iran):(file)

Noun

Dari کارگر
Iranian Persian
Tajik коргар

کَارْگَر • (kârgar) (plural کارگران (kârgarân), or کارگرها (kârgar-hâ))

  1. worker, labourer, workman
    Synonyms: فعله (fa'le), عمله (amale)

Adjective

کَارْگَر • (kârgar)

  1. effective, with an effect, working properly
    Synonym: مؤثر (mo'asser)
    • 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 197:
      شد باز بر دل و جگرم کارگر فراق
      بودم هلاک ساخت از آنم بتر فراق
      šud bāz bar dil u jigaram kārgar firāq
      būdam halāk sāxt az ānam batar firāq
      The farewell once more had an effect on my heart and liver.
      I was [already] ruined; the farewell made me worse off than that.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Descendants

  • → Georgian: ქარგალი (kargali)
  • → Bengali: কারিগর (karigor)
  • → Gujarati: કારીગર (kārīgar)
  • → Hindustani:
    Hindi: कारीगर (kārīgar)
    Urdu: کارِیگَر (kārīgar)
  • → Maithili:
    Devanagari script: कारीगर (kārīgar)
    Tirhuta script: 𑒏𑒰𑒩𑒲𑒑𑒩 (kārīgara)
  • → Marathi: कारागीर (kārāgīr)
  • → Odia: କାରିଗର (kārigara)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: كاركر (kârger)
  • → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਕਾਰੀਗਰ (kārīgar)
    Shahmukhi script: کارِیگَر (kārīgar)
  • → Sindhi:
    Arabic script: ڪارِيگَرُ
    Devanagari script: कारीगरु

References

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