# ارض
## Arabic
### Verb

اِرْضَ • (irḍa) (form I) /ir.dˤa/
* second-person masculine singular imperative of رَضِيَ (raḍiya)

## Malay
### Noun

ارض (plural ارض-ارض or ارض٢, informal 1st possessive ارضکو, 2nd possessive ارضمو, 3rd possessive ارضڽ)
* Jawi spelling of ardi‎

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ, “land, earth”), from Proto-Semitic *ʾarṣ́-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɑɾz]
* Homophone: عرض (ʼarz)

### Noun

ارض • (arz) (definite accusative ارضی (arzı), plural ارضون (arazûn) or ارضات (arazât))
* earth, soil, ground, a mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth
    Synonyms: تراب (türâb), زمین (zemin), طوپراق (toprak)
* country, region, territory, district, land, tract, a geographical area of considerable but indefinite extent
    Synonyms: اولكا (ülke), ایل (il), تراب (türâb), طوپراق (toprak)
* Earth, Terra, the world, the globe, the third planet of the Solar System upon which humans live
    Synonym: دنیا (dünyâ)

#### Derived terms

* ارض خراج (arz-ı harac, “tributary country”)
* ارض عشریه (arz-ı ʼöşriye, “tithable country”)
* ارضی (arzî, “pertaining to the soil”)
* ارضیه (arziye, “rent charged as space”)
* حق ارض (hakk-ı arz, “land tax”)
* كلفت ارض (külfet-i arz, “land servitude”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: arz

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “ارض”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 36
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “arz3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 306
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “arz”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 50
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ارض”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 68
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Terra”, 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 1665
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ارض”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 143
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “arz2”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ارض”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 68

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ), from Proto-Semitic *ʔarṣ́-.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʔaɾz]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔäɹz]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔäɹz]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔäɹz]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔäɹz]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʔæɹz]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʔäɹz]
* Homophone: عرض ('arz)

### Noun

ارض • (arz) (plural اراضی (arâzi))
* soil, earth, ground, land
    Synonym: زمین (zamin)
* territory, region, country
    Synonym: زمین (zamin)
    اراضی اشغالی فلسطین ― arâzi-ye ešğâli-ye falastin ― occupied Palestinian territories

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian ارض (arz), from Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ), from Proto-Semitic *ʾarṣ́-.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /əɾz/

### Noun

ارض • (arz) f (Hindi spelling अर्ज़)
* land, earth, region, territory