کاغذ

کاغذ (kağız) (definite accusative کاغذی (kağızı), plural کاغذلار (kağızlar))

1. Arabic spelling of kağız

• کاغد (kâġad, kâġed)
• قاغذ (qâġaz) (dialectal pronunciation)

Borrowed from Sogdian 𐼸𐼰𐼲𐼹𐼰 (kʾɣδʾ /⁠kāγaδā⁠/).

• Audio (Iran):

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کاغَذ or کاغِذ • (kâġaz or kâġez) (plural کاغذها)

1. paper
   • Nāsir Xusraw, Safarnāma, section 22:

     و در آن جا کاغذ نیکو سازند مثل کاغذ سمرقندی بل بهتر

     va dar ân jâ kâġaz-i nêkô sâzand mis̱l-i kâġaz-i samarqandî bal bihtar

     And they make high-quality paper over there, similar to Samarqand paper, but even better.

2. letter

• کاغذی (kâġazi)
• کاغذبازی (kâġazbâzi)

• → Central Kurdish: کاغەز (kaẍez)
• → Arabic: كَاغَد (kāḡad), كَاغِذ (kāḡiḏ), كَاغَذ (kāḡaḏ), كَاغِيد (kāḡīd)
• → Georgian: ქაღალდი (kaɣaldi)
• → Chechen: кехат (kexat)
• → Lezgi: кагъаз (kaġaz)
• → Tabasaran: кагъаз (kaġaz)
• → Avar: кагъат (kağat)
• → Hindustani:
  • → Hindi: काग़ज़ (kāġaz), कागद (kāgad)
    • → Sanskrit: कर्गद (kargada)
  • → Urdu: کاغَذ (kāġaz)
• → Bengali: কাগজ (kagoj)
• → Marathi: कागद (kāgad)
• → Odia: କାଗଜ (kāgaja)
• → Punjabi: ਕਾਗ਼ਜ਼ (kāġaz), کاغذ (kāġẕ)
• → Marwari: कागद (kāgad)
• → Sindhi: ڪاغذ (kāġazu)
• → Tamil: காகிதம் (kākitam)
• → Uzbek: qogʻoz
• → Uyghur: قەغەز (qeghez)
• → Ottoman Turkish: كاغد (kâğıd)
  • Turkish: kâğıt
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ћага

    Latin script: ćaga

• → Azerbaijani: kağız
• → Turkmen: kagyz, kagaz
• → Kazakh: қағаз (qağaz)
• → Kyrgyz: кагаз (kagaz)
• → Tatar: кәгазь (käğaz’), qäğäz
• → Bashkir: ҡағыҙ (qağıź)
• → Karachay-Balkar: къагъыт (qağıt)

• B. Gharib (2013) “Sogdian language i. Loanwords in Persian”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, New York
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “کاغذ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “کاغذ”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, pages 773–774

Borrowed from Classical Persian کاغذ (kāġaz). Compare Sindhi ڪاغذ (kāġazu), Urdu کاغذ (kāġaz).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /käː.ɣəz/

کاغذ • (kāġaz) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਕਾਗ਼ਜ਼)

1. paper

Borrowed from Classical Persian کَاغَذ (kāġaz). Compare Sindhi ڪاغذ (kāġazu).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /kɑː.ɣəz/

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• Rhymes: -əz
• Hyphenation: کا‧غَذ

کاغَذ • (kāġaz) m (formal plural کاغَذات (kāġazāt), Hindi spelling काग़ज़)

1. paper, document

   Synonym: دَسْتَاویز (dastāvez)

2. epistle, letter
3. note, writing (ie. in writing, connoted with a permission slip)
4. (dated) newspaper
5. (often in the plural) legal documents; status (as opposed to being an alien with no legality)

• “کاغذ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “کاغذ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “کاغذ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “کاغذ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “کاغذ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “کاغذ”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC

From Urdu کاغَذ (kāġaz).

کاغذ (kāğaz)

1. paper

   Synonym: قاغز (qāğaz)

2. trash, junk, waste