# موجود
## Arabic
### Etymology

Derived from the passive participle of وَجَدَ (wajada, “to find”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maw.d͡ʒuːd/

### Adjective

مَوْجُود • (mawjūd) (feminine مَوْجُودَة (mawjūda), masculine plural مَوْجُودُونَ (mawjūdūna), feminine plural مَوْجُودَات (mawjūdāt))
* existing
* available
* found

#### Antonyms

* مَعْدُوم (maʕdūm)

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: mövcud / мөвҹуд (“available, existing”)
* → Bengali: মজুদ (mojud)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: मौजूद (maujūd, “available; present”)
    Urdu: موجود (maujūd, “available; present”)
    Phalura: mauǰúd
* → Kazakh: мәужүт (mäujüt, “available, existing”)
* → Northern Kurdish: mewcûd (“available, existing”)
* → Ottoman Turkish: موجود (mevcud, “available, existing”)
** Turkish: mevcut
* → Persian: موجود (mojud, “available, existing”)
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਮੌਜੂਦ (maujūd, “present; available”)
    Shahmukhi script: موجود (maujūd, “available; present”)
* → Uzbek: mavjud / мавжуд (mavjud, “available, existing”)
* → Uyghur: مەۋجۇت (mewjut)

## Azerbaijani
### Adjective

موجود
* Arabic spelling of mövcud

## Iraqi Arabic
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Arabic مَوْجُود (mawjūd).

### Pronunciation

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### Adjective

مَوْجُود (mawjūd)
* available, on hand, existent
* present, in attendance, around
    خابَرتَه، لَكِن گالُولِي ما مَوجُود بِلبَيت ― I called him, but they told me he's not at home.

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

From Arabic مَوْجُود (mawjūd).

### Adjective

موجود • (mevcud)
* available
* existing

#### Descendants

* Turkish: mevcut

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَوْجُود (mawjūd).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [maw.ˈd͡ʒuːð]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mäw.d͡ʒúːd̪]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mäw.d͡ʒúːd̪]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [mäw.d͡ʒúːd̪]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [mäw.d͡ʒúd̪̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [mow.d͡ʒúːd̪̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [mäw.d͡ʒúd̪]

### Noun

موجود • (mowjud) (plural موجودات (mowjudât))
* being

### Adjective

موجود • (mowjud)
* existing
* available
** c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 219”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎:بود که مجلس حافظ به یمن تربیتش هر آنچه می‌طلبد جمله باشدش موجودbuwad ki majlis-i hāfiz ba yumn-i tarbiyataš har ānči mē-talabad jumla bāšadaš mawjūdBy the blessing of his poetic arrangements, may it be that in Ḥāfiẓ's assembly, All that he is seeking becomes available to him.(Classical Persian transliteration)

#### Derived terms

* موجودی (mowjudi)

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Arabic مَوْجُود (mawjūd).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maw.ʒuːd/, [mawˈʒuːd]
* Audio (Ramallah):(file)

### Adjective

موجود • (mawjūd) (feminine موجودة (mawjūd), masculine plural موجودين (mawjūdīn))
* present (in the immediate vicinity)
* existing

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَوْجُود (mawjūd), itself from Arabic مَوْجُود (mawjūd), from the Arabic root و ج د (w j d).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /mɔː.d͡ʒuːd̪/
* (Punjabic Urdu) IPA: /mə.d͡ʒuːd̪/
* Rhymes: -uːd̪
* Hyphenation: مَو‧جُود

### Adjective

مَوجُود • (maujūd) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling मौजूद)
* (literally) existing
* present (ie. in attendance)
    Synonym: حاضِر (ḥāẓir)
* (formal) alive (as opposed to dead)
    Synonyms: زندہ (zinda), حَیَات (hayāt)
* (figuratively) ready, willing
    Synonym: تیار (tayyār)
* available, obtainable
    Synonym: دَسْتیاب (dastyāb)
* current (in relation to time – present; in the moment)
    Synonym: مَوجُودَہ (maujūda)
* (rare) possessing, possessive

#### Derived terms

* مَوجُودَہ (maujūda)
* مَوجُودْگی (maujūdgī)

### Further reading

* “موجود”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “موجود”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “موجود”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.