ضعیف

ضعیف (za'īf)

1. scholar

Borrowed from Arabic ضَعِيف (ḍaʕīf, “weak, feeble”).

ضعیف • (zaʼif)

1. weak, feeble, infirm, debilitated, deficient in force or physical strength

   Synonyms: درمانسز (dermansız), زبون (zebun), قوتسز (kuvvetsiz)

2. slim, thin, meager, slender, lithe, skinny, having little body fat or flesh

   Synonyms: آریق (arık), جلیز (cılız), صیصقه (sıska), نارین (narin)

3. emaciated, scrawny, gaunt, macilent, especially from hunger or disease

• Turkish: zayıf
• → Armenian: զայիֆ (zayif)
• → Crimean Tatar: zayıf
• → Gagauz: zayıf
• → Romanian: zaif

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zayıf”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5442
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “ضعیف”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 307b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ضعیف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 784
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Debilis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 323
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ضعیف”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3044
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “zayıf”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ضعیف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1211

Borrowed from Arabic ضَعِيف (ḍaʕīf).

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ضعیف • (za'if) (comparative ضعیف‌تَر (za'if-tar), superlative ضعیف‌تَرین (za'if-tarin))

1. weak, feeble

   Synonym: ناتوان (nâtavân)

   Antonym: قوی (qavi)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 3098:

     چون همه اوصاف و اجزا شد نحیف / خویشتن‌داری و صبرت شد ضعیف

     čon hame owsâf o ajzâ šod nahif / xištan-dâri o sabr-at šod za'if

     Since all the functions and parts [of your body] are atrophied, your self-control and patience have become weak.

2. thin, weakly

   Synonym: لاغر (lâğar)

3. poor (of low quality), defective

Borrowed from Classical Persian ضَعِیف (za'īf), from Arabic ضَعِيف (ḍaʕīf).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /zə.(ʔ)iːf/
• Rhymes: -iːf
• Hyphenation: ضَ‧عِیف

ضَعِیف • (za'īf) (indeclinable, feminine ضَعِیفَہ (za'īfa), Hindi spelling ज़ईफ़)

1. weak; feeble
2. old (of a person)
3. weak; slow (of mind; opinion etc.)
4. (Islam) weak; unreliable (of a Hadith)

ضَعِیف • (za'īf) m (formal plural ضُعَفا (zu'afā), feminine ضَعِیفَہ (za'īfa), Hindi spelling ज़ईफ़)

1. a weak; old; poor (person or man)

• → Ushojo: ضعیف (za'īf)
• → Yidgha: ضعیف (ze'īf)

From Urdu ضَعِیف (za'īf).

ضعیف (za'īf)

1. old

ضعیف (ze'īf)

1. poor