حرص

Arabic

Root
ح ر ص (ḥ-r-ṣ)

Pronunciation 1

  • IPA(key): /ħirsˤ/

Noun

حِرْص • (ḥirṣ) m

  1. greed, craving, eagerness
  2. fruit stone, pulp round the stone
Declension

Pronunciation 2

  • IPA(key): /ħa.ra.sˤa/

Verb

حَرِصَ or حَرَصَ • (ḥaraṣa or ḥariṣa) I, non-past يَحْرِصُ‎ (yaḥriṣu)

  1. to desire, to want
  2. to strive, to aspire
Conjugation

References

  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “حرص”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “حرص”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic حِرْص (ḥirṣ).

Noun

حرص • (hırs)

  1. passion
  2. desire
  3. anger
  4. forwardness

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic حِرْص (ḥirṣ).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? hirs
Dari reading? hirs
Iranian reading? hers
Tajik reading? hirs

Noun

حرص • (hers)

  1. greed
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