معذور

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic مَعْذُور‎ (maʕḏūr).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [maʔ.ˈðuːɾ]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäʔ.ˈzuːɾ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mɑː.ˈzuːɾ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mɔː.ˈzuːɾ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæʔ.ˈzuːɹ]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mäʔ.ˈzuɾ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	ma'ḏūr
Dari reading^?	ma'zūr
Iranian reading^?	ma'zur
Tajik reading^?	maʾzur

Adjective

مَعْذور • (ma'zur)

excusable; exempt
- c. 1390, Hafez, “Ghazal 5”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Hafez]‎:
  ‏حافظ به خود نپوشید این خرقهٔ می‌آلود
  ای شیخ پاک‌دامن معذور دار ما را‎
  hafiz ba xwad na-pôšîd în xirqa-yi may-âlûd
  ay šayx-i pâk-dâman ma'zûr dâr mâ râ
  Hafez, do not put on these wine-sullied rags!
  O purely clad shaykh, hold me excusable.
  (romanization in Classical Persian)

Urdu

Etymology

First attested in c. 1582 as Middle Hindi معذور‎ (maʻẕūr), from Classical Persian ‎ (maʻẕūr), itself from Arabic مَعْذُور‎ (maʕḏūr).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /məʕ.zuːɾ/, [mɑː.zuːɾ]
Rhymes: -uːɾ
Hyphenation: مَع‧ذُور

Adjective

مَعْذُور • (ma'zūr) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling माज़ूर)

disabled, handicapped
(formal or dated) excused, excusable, exempt
(figuratively) helpless
(rare) stuck, closed, resilient
deprived

Further reading

“معذور”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
“معذور”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “معذور”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.

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