# ضرر
## Arabic
### Etymology

Compare ضَرَّ (ḍarra, “to damage”).

### Noun

ضَرَر • (ḍarar) m (plural أَضْرَار (ʔaḍrār))
* damage, injury, hurt, harm, mischief
    لَا ضَرَر ― lā ḍarar ― never mind, it does not matter
    لَا ضَرَرَ وَلَا ضِرَارlā ḍarara walā ḍirār(please add an English translation of this usage example)
* an evil state or condition
* defect, deficiency, detriment, loss
* narrowness, straitness
* brink or edge of a cave

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: zərər
* → Kazakh: зарар (zarar), залал (zalal)
* → Ottoman Turkish: ضرر (zarar)
** Turkish: zarar
** → Albanian: zarar
** → Middle Armenian: զարար (zarar)
*** Armenian: զարար (zarar)
** → Aromanian: zãrari / zãrare
** → Bulgarian: зара́р (zarár)
** → Georgian: ზარალი (zarali)
*** → Mingrelian: ზარალი (zarali)
*** → Svan: ზარა̈ლ (zaräl)
** → Greek: ζαράρι (zarári) — Cretan
** → Macedonian: зарар (zarar)
** → Romanian: zarar
* → Persian: ضرر (zarar)
* → Swahili: dhara
* → Turkmen: zelel
* → Uyghur: زەرەر (zerer)
* → Uzbek: zarar

### Adjective

ضَرَر • (ḍarar)
* narrow

#### Declension
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ضَرَر (ḍarar, “damage, harm”).

### Noun

ضرر • (zarar) (definitive accusative ضرری (zararı))
* damage, injury, detriment, harm, the condition or measure of something not being intact
    Synonyms: زیان (ziyan), گزند (gezend), مضرت (mazarrat)
* loss, the result of no longer possessing an object, function, or characteristic
    Synonyms: خسارت (hasaret), زیان (ziyan), غائب (gayıb)

#### Derived terms

* ضرر دیده (zarar dide, “who suffered damage”)
* ضرر چكمك (zarar çekmek, “to suffer harm or loss”)
* ضررسز (zararsız, “harmless, innocent”)
* ضررلاشمق (zararlaşmak, “to go shares in a loss”)
* ضررلو (zararlı, “harmful, injurious”)
* ضرری طوقونمق (zararı dokunmak, “to cause harm”)
* ضرری یوق (zararı yok, “it doesn't matter”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: zarar
* → Albanian: zarar
* → Middle Armenian: զարար (zarar)
** Armenian: զարար (zarar)
* → Aromanian: zãrari / zãrare
* → Bulgarian: зара́р (zarár)
* → Georgian: ზარალი (zarali)
** → Mingrelian: ზარალი (zarali)
** → Svan: ზარა̈ლ (zaräl)
* → Greek: ζαράρι (zarári) — Cretan
* → Macedonian: зарар (zarar)
* → Romanian: zarar

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zarar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5436
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “zarar”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1405
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ضرر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 784a
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Damnum”, 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 320
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ضرر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3038
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “zarar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ضرر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1209

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ضَرَر (ḍarar).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [za.ˈɾaɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [zä.ɾǽɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [zä.ɾǽɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [zä.ɾǽɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [zä.ɾǽɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [zæ.ɹǽɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [zä.ɾǽɾ]

### Noun

ضرر • (zarar)
* detriment, loss, disadvantage, deficiency
    Synonym: زیان (ziyân)
    Antonyms: سود (sud), فایده (fâyede)
* hurt, harm, injury
    Synonym: آسیب (âsib)

#### Related terms

* مضر (mozerr)

#### Descendants

* → Gujarati: જરર (jarar), ઝરર (jharar)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian ضرر (zarar), from Arabic ضَرَر (ḍarar).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /zə.ɾəɾ/

### Noun

ضَرَر • (zarar) m (Hindi spelling ज़रर)
* detriment, loss, disadvantage, deficiency
* hurt, damage,
    Synonyms: چوٹ (coṭ), جُرْح (jurh), آگھات (āghāt)
* distress, anguish
* harm, injury

### References

* “ضرر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “ضرر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.

## Ushojo
### Etymology

From Arabic ضرر (ḍarar).

### Noun

ضرر (zarar)
* loss, damage