دردناک

Persian

Etymology

‎ (dard, “pain”) +‎ ‎ (-nâk, “-ful”)

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /daɾdˈnɑːk/

(Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /daɾdˈnɑːk/

(Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /dæɾdˈnɒːk/

(Tajik) IPA^(key): /daɾdˈnɔk/

Adjective

دَردناک • (dardnâk) (comparative دَردناک‌تَر‎ (dardnâk-tar), superlative دَردناک‌تَرین‎ (dardnâk-tarin))

painful, sore, aching
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, Reynold A. Nicholson, transl., مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume V, verse 1661:
  ‏نیستم بی‌رحم بل زان هر سه پاک، رحم بیشستم ز درد دردناک‎
  nistam bi-rahm, bal z-ân har se pâk, rahm bišastam ze dard-e dardnâk.
  I am not pitiless; nay, I have greater pity than those three holy ones for the sorrow of the sorrowful.
- (Can we date this quote?), ابراهیم بوالحسنی [Ebrâhim Bu-al-Hasani], Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, transl., پلاک [Dog Tag]:
  ‏و ناگهان خبری دردناک آوردند / ز رد پای تو یک مشت خاک آوردند / هنوز باورم این بود باز می‌گردی / برای باورم اما پلاک آوردند‎
  va nâgahân xabar-i dardnâk âvardand / ze radd-e pâ-ye to yek mošt xâk âvardand / hanuz bâvar-am in bud bâz mi-gardi / barâ-ye bâvar-am ammâ pelâk âvardand
  Without any warning, they brought painful news / From your footprints they brought a handful of dust. / Still I was convinced, "he will return." / To convince me, they brought me a dog-tag.

Descendants

Urdu: درد ناک‎ (dard nâk)

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