مشغول

Derived from the passive participle of شَغَلَ‎ (šaḡala, “to occupy, to keep busy”), from the root ش غ ل‎ (š-ḡ-l).

• IPA^(key): /maʃ.ɣuːl/

مَشْغُول • (mašḡūl) (feminine مَشْغُولَة‎ (mašḡūla), masculine plural مَشْغُولُونَ‎ (mašḡūlūna), feminine plural مَشْغُولَات‎ (mašḡūlāt))

1. busy
2. distracted
3. occupied (telephone line, seat, etc.)

• → Azerbaijani: məşğul
• → Bashkir: мәшғүл (mäşğül)
• → Chagatai: مشغول‎
  • Uyghur: مەشغۇل‎ (meshghul)
  • Uzbek: mashgʻul
• → Indonesian: masygul
• → Kumyk: машгъул (maşğul)
• → Middle Armenian: մշղըլիլ (mšłəlil)
• → Ottoman Turkish: مشغول‎
  • Turkish: meşgul
  • → Armenian: մաշխուլ (mašxul)
• → Pashto: مشغول‎
• → Persian: مشغول‎ (mašğul)
  • → Bengali: মশগুল (mośgul)
  • → Gujarati: મશગૂલ (maśgūl)
  • → Hindustani: maśġūl

    Hindi: मशग़ूल

    Urdu: مَشْغُول‎

  • → Punjabi: مَشْغُول‎ (maśġūl)
  • → Sindhi:

    Arabic script: مَشْغوُل‎

    Devanagari script: मश्ग़ूल

• → Tatar: мәшгуль (mäşgul’)
• → Turkmen: meşgul

مشغول

1. Arabic spelling of məşğul

Borrowed from Arabic مَشْغُول‎ (mašḡūl).

مشغول • (meşgul)

1. busy; occupied; preoccupied

• Turkish: meşgul

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مشغول”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1869

Borrowed from Arabic مَشْغُول‎ (mašḡūl).

مشغول • (mašǧúl)

1. busy

• Qamosona.com

Borrowed from Arabic مَشْغُول‎ (mašḡūl).

مَشغول • (mašğul)

1. busy, occupied (in doing something, etc.)

   ‏پسر الان مشغول خواندن است.‎‎ (more literary)

   pesar alân mašgul-e xândan ast.

   The boy is busy reading now.

   ‏پسر الان مشغول خوندنه.‎‎ (more colloquial)

   pesar alân mašgul-e xundan-e.

   The boy is busy reading now.

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, Reynold A. Nicholson, transl., مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume III, verse 1604:

     ‏چون بجد مشغول باشد آدمی، او ز دید رنج خود باشد عمی‎

     čon be-jedd mašğul bâšad âdami, u ze did-e ranj-e xod bâšad 'ami.

     When a man is busy in earnest, he is blind to the sight of his pain.

2. occupied

• → Bengali: মশগুল (mośgul)
• → Gujarati: મશગૂલ (maśgūl)
• → Hindustani: maśġūl

  Hindi: मशग़ूल

  Urdu: مَشْغُول‎

• → Punjabi: مَشْغُول‎ (maśġūl)
• → Sindhi:

  Arabic script: مَشْغوُل‎

  Devanagari script: मश्ग़ूल

Borrowed from Classical Persian مشغول‎ (mašğūl), from Arabic مَشْغُول‎ (mašḡūl).

مَشْغُول • (maśġūl)

1. busy

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “مشغُول‎”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Borrowed from Classical Persian مشغول‎ (mašğūl), from Arabic مَشْغُول‎ (mašḡūl).

مَشْغوُلُ (mašğūlu)

1. busy

• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910), “مَشْغوُلُ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary (in English), Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
• “مشغول”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary (in English), University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866-1938

From Arabic مَشْغُول‎ (mašḡūl). Equivalent to the passive participle of شغل‎ (šaḡal, “to occupy, keep busy”) .

• IPA^(key): /maʃ.ɣuːl/, [maʃˈɣuːl]

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مشغول • (mašḡūl) (feminine مشغولة‎ (mašḡūle), common plural مشغولين‎ (mašḡūlīn))

1. busy, occupied

   Synonym: شغال‎ (šaḡḡāl)

   Antonym: فاضي‎ (fāḍi)

Borrowed from Classical Persian مشغول‎ (mašğul), from Arabic مَشْغُول‎ (mašḡūl). Compare Sindhi مَشْغوُل‎ / मश्ग़ूल, Gujarati મશગૂલ (maśgūl), Bengali মশগুল (mośgul)

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /məʃ.ɣuːl/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /məʃ.ɣuːl/
• Rhymes: -uːl
• Hyphenation: مَش‧غُول

مَشْغُول • (maśġūl) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling मशग़ूल)

1. occupied, engaged, busy [+ (object) میں‎ = in]

   Synonym: مصروف‎ (masrūf)

• مشغولیت‎ (maśġūliyat)

• “مشغول”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “مشغول”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.