مشکل

See also: مشكل‎

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مُشْكِل‎ (muškil).

Pronunciation

Adjective

مشکل • (moškel) (comparative مشکل‌تَر‎ (moškel-tar), superlative مشکل‌تَرین‎ (moškel-tarin))

  1. difficult
  2. problematic
  3. hard

Noun

مشکل • (moškel) (plural مشکل‌ها‎ (moškel-hâ) or مشکلات‎ (moškelât))

  1. problem
  2. difficulty
  • مشکل کردن‎ (moškel kardan)

Descendants

  • → Assamese: মস্কিল (moskil)
  • → Bengali: মুশকিল (muśokil), মুসকিল (muśokil)
  • → Gujarati: મુશ્કેલ (muśkel)
  • → Hindustani: muśkil
    Hindi: मुश्किल
    Urdu: مُشْکِل‎
    • → Phalura:
      Latin: muškíl
      Perso-Arabic: مُشکِل‎
  • → Maithili: maskil
    Devanagari script: मसकिल
    Tirhuta script: 𑒧𑒮𑒏𑒱𑒪
  • → Marathi: मुश्कील (muśkīl)
  • → Marwari: मुश्किल (muśkil)
  • → Old Punjabi: ਮੁਸਕਲੁ (musakalu)
  • → Sindhi:
    Arabic script: مُشْڪِلُ‎
    Devanagari script: मुश्किलु

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مشکل‎ (muškil).

Pronunciation

Adjective

مُشْکِل • (muśkil) (Hindi spelling मुश्किल)

  1. difficult
  2. problematic
  3. hard

Noun

مُشْکِل • (muśkil) f (plural مُشْکِلات‎, Hindi spelling मुश्किल)

  1. difficulty

Descendants

  • → Phalura:
    Latin: muškíl
    Perso-Arabic: مُشکِل‎

Further reading

  • “مشکل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884), “مشکل”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1040
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “مشکل”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 590
  • “مشکل”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
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