# کاغذ
## Azerbaijani
### Noun

کاغذ (kağız) (definite accusative کاغذی (kağızı), plural کاغذلار (kağızlar))
* Arabic spelling of kağız

#### Declension
## Persian
### Alternative forms

* کاغد (kâğad, kâğed)
* قاغذ (qâğaz) (dialectal pronunciation)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Sogdian 𐼸𐼰𐼲𐼹𐼰 (kʾɣδʾ /⁠kāγaδā⁠/).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [kɑː.ɣað], [kɑː.ɣaz]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [kʰɑː.ɣäz]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [kʰɑː.ɣäz]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [kʰɑː.ɣäz]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [kʰɔː.ɣäz]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [kʰɒː.ɢæz], [kʰɒː.ɢez]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [kʰɔ.ʁäz]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

| Dari | کاغذ |
| Iranian Persian | کاغذ |
| Tajik | коғаз |
کاغَذ or کاغِذ • (kâğaz or kâğez) (plural کاغذها (kâğaz-hâ))
* paper
** Nāsir Xusraw, Safarnāma, section 22:
    و در آن جا کاغذ نیکو سازند مثل کاغذ سمرقندی بل بهترva dar ân jâ kâğaz-i nêkô sâzand mis̱l-i kâğaz-i samarqandî bal bihtarAnd they make high-quality paper over there, similar to Samarqand paper, but even better.
* letter

#### Derived terms

* کاغذی (kâğazi)
* کاغذبازی (kâğazbâzi)

#### Descendants

* → 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)

### References

* 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 (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, pages 773–774

## Punjabi
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Punjabi) IPA: /käː.ɣəz/

### Noun

کاغذ • (kāġaz) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਕਾਗ਼ਜ਼)
* paper

#### Declension
## Urdu
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /kɑː.ɣəz/
* Audio (Pakistan):(file)
* Rhymes: -əz
* Hyphenation: کا‧غَذ

### Noun

کاغَذ • (kāġaz) m (formal plural کاغَذات (kāġazāt), Hindi spelling काग़ज़)
* paper, document
    Synonym: دَسْتَاویز (dastāvez)
* epistle, letter
* note, writing (ie. in writing, connoted with a permission slip)
* (dated) newspaper
* (often in the plural) legal documents; status (as opposed to being an alien with no legality)

#### Declension

Declension of کاغذ :
| | singular | plural |
| direct | کاغَذ (kāġaz) | کاغَذ (kāġaz) |
| oblique | کاغَذ (kāġaz) | کاغَذوں (kāġazō̃) |
| vocative | کاغَذ (kāġaz) | کاغَذو (kāġazō) |

### Further reading

* “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, 2024.
* 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, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC

## Ushojo
### Etymology

From Urdu کاغَذ (kāġaz).

### Noun

کاغذ (kāğaz)
* paper
    Synonym: قاغز (qāğaz)
* trash, junk, waste