مرد

From the root م ر د‎ (m-r-d).

مَرَدَ • (marada) I, non-past يَمْرُدُ‎‎ (yamrudu)

1. to be bold
2. to be rebellious
3. to be constant with something (with على)
4. to suckle

• مِرِّيد‎ (mirrīd, “a rebel or bold person”)
• مُرُود‎ (murūd, “mutiny, rebellion”)
• مَارِد‎ (mārid, “mutinous, rebel”)

Form-II causative of مَرَدَ‎ (marada, “to be constant”).

مَرَّدَ • (marrada) II, non-past يُمَرِّدُ‎‎ (yumarridu) (causative)

1. to polish, to level

مَرِدَ • (marida) I, non-past يَمْرَدُ‎‎ (yamradu)

1. to be beardless
2. to be callow or inexperienced

Unknown, possibly from a Middle Iranian cognate of Persian مورد‎ (murd, “myrtle”). The “rebellion” senses of the root م ر د‎ (m-r-d) may then be figurative after the tonic properties of the myrtle or the thermogenic, aphrodisiac and purgative effects of the toothbrush tree fruits.

مَرْد • (mard) m

1. fruit of the toothbrush tree

   Synonyms: بَرِير‎ (barīr), كَبَاث‎ (kabāṯ), خَمْط‎ (ḵamṭ)

مرد • (mard)

1. man (male human)

Borrowed from Persian مرد‎ (mard).

مرد • (merd)

1. man; a human male

مرد • (merd)

1. man of his word
2. valiant

• Turkish: mert

مرد • (mard) m

1. man, male, person
2. brave man, courageous man
3. brave, noble and decent person, real man

• Pashtoon, Zeeya A. (2009), “مرد”, in Pashto–English Dictionary, Hyattsville: Dunwoody Press

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (mlt' /mard/), [Book Pahlavi needed] (GBRA /mard/), from Old Persian 𐎶𐎼𐎫𐎡𐎹 (martiya), from Proto-Iranian *mŕ̥tah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mŕ̥tas, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥tós (“dead, mortal”), from *mer- (“to die”); whence also مردن‎ (mordan, “to die”), and مردم‎ (mardom, “people”).

Cognates include Northern Kurdish mêr (“husband”), Northern Luri مێرںە‎ (mırə, “husband”), Sanskrit मर्त (marta, “mortal, man”), Old Armenian մարդ (mard, “man”), Ancient Greek βροτός (brotós, “mortal”), and Latin mortuus (“dead”)

• Vocalised Persian: مَرْدْ

• (dialectal, Khesht, Konartakhteh, Dashtestan) IPA^(key): /meɾd/

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مرد • (mard)

1. man (adult male human)

   ‏یک مردِ جوان‎ ― yek mard-e javan ― A young man

2. (calque from English, in the vocative) used to address a man

   ‏چطوری مرد؟!‎‎ ― četowri mard?! ― How are doing you man?!

3. a member of a team or group, usually in plural

   ‏یوآخیم لو و مردانش برزیل را هفت بر یک شکست دادند.‎‎

   yuâxim low va mardânaš berezil râ haft bar yek šekast dâdand.

   Joachim Löw and his men beat Brazil 7-1.

• → Azerbaijani: mərd
• → Bengali: মরদ (môrôdô)
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: मर्द (mard)
  • Urdu: مرد‎ (mard)
• → Ottoman Turkish: مرد‎
  • Turkish: mert

• زن‎ (zan, “woman, wife”), پسر‎ (pesar, “boy, son”), پدر‎ (pedar, “father”), برادر‎ (barâdar, “brother”), خواهر‎ (xâhar, “sister”), دختر‎ (doxtar, “daughter, girl”)

مرد • (mord)

1. past stem of مردن‎ (mordan)

Borrowed from Persian مرد‎ (mard).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /məɾd̪/
• Rhymes: -əɾd̪

مَرْد • (mard) m (Hindi spelling मर्द)

1. man (male human)