# مردار
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مردار (murdâr, “carrion, carcass”), a noun formed from the verb مردن (murdan, “to die”).

### Noun

مردار • (murdar)
* carrion, carcass, the body of a dead animal
    Synonym: لاش (leş)

### Adjective

مردار • (murdar)
* unclean, dirty, filthy, soiled, covered with or containing dirt or grime
    Synonym: پیس (pis)

#### Derived terms

* مردار آغاجی (murdar ağacı, “purple loosestrife”)
* مردار اولمك (murdar ölmek, “to die unclean”)
* مردار ایلیك (murdar ilik, “spinal marrow”)
* مردار خوار (murdar har, “carrion-eating”)
* مردارسنمق (murdarsınmak, “to regard as unclean”)
* مردارلاتمق (murdarlatmak, “to make or let be filthy”)
* مردارلامق (murdarlamak, “to soil, to make filthy”)
* مردارلانمق (murdarlanmak, “to become filthy”)
* مردارلق (murdarlık, “dirt, filth”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: murdar, mundar
* → Albanian: murdar
* → Aromanian: murdar
* → Bulgarian: мурда́р (murdár)
* → Greek: μουρντάρης (mourntáris)
* → Megleno-Romanian: murdar
* → Middle Armenian: մուռտառ (muṙtaṙ), մուրտառ (murtaṙ), մուրտար (murtar)
** Armenian: մունդառ (mundaṙ), մուռտառ (muṙtaṙ), մունտառ (muntaṙ), մունդա̈ռ (mundäṙ), մուրդառ (murdaṙ), մուռտալ (muṙtal)
* → Romanian: murdar
* → Serbo-Croatian: mùrdār / му̀рда̄р

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “مردار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 751
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “murdar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3311
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “murdâr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 818
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مردار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1148
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Squalidus”, 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, Vienna, column 1589
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مردار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 4565-4566
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “murdar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مردار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1808

## Persian
### Etymology

Formed of مردن (mordan, “to die”) +‎ ـار (-âr).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [muɾ.ˈdɑːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mʊɾ.d̪ɑ́ːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mʊɾ.d̪ɑ́ːɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [mʊɾ.d̪ɑ́ːɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [muɾ.d̪ɔ́ːɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [moɹ.d̪ɒ́ːɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [muɾ.d̪ɔ́ɾ]

### Noun

| Dari | مردار |
| Iranian Persian | مردار |
| Tajik | мурдор |
مردار • (mordâr)
* carrion
* corpse
* carcass

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: murdar
* → Crimean Tatar: murdar
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: मुर्दार (murdār)
    Urdu: مردار (murdār)
* → Ottoman Turkish: مردار (murdar)
** Turkish: murdar, mundar
** → Albanian: murdar
** → Aromanian: murdar
** → Bulgarian: мурда́р (murdár)
** → Greek: μουρντάρης (mourntáris)
** → Megleno-Romanian: murdar
** → Middle Armenian: մուռտառ (muṙtaṙ), մուրտառ (murtaṙ), մուրտար (murtar)
*** Armenian: մունդառ (mundaṙ), մուռտառ (muṙtaṙ), մունտառ (muntaṙ), մունդա̈ռ (mundäṙ), մուրդառ (murdaṙ), մուռտալ (muṙtal)
** → Romanian: murdar
** → Serbo-Croatian: mùrdār / му̀рда̄р
* → Pashto: مردار (mërdâr)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مردار (murdār).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /mʊɾ.d̪ɑːɾ/
* Rhymes: -ɑːɾ

### Adjective

مردار • (murdār) (Hindi spelling मुर्दार)
* dead
* impure
* unclean
* dirty
* ugly
* profane
* obscene

### Noun

مردار • (murdār) m (Hindi spelling मुर्दार)
* carrion
* corpse
* carcass