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دشمن

دشمن

Azeri

Other scripts
Cyrillic дүшмән
Roman düşmən
Perso-Arabic دوشمن, دشمن

Alternative forms

Noun

دشمن (düşmən) (definite accusative دشمنی (düşməni), plural دشمنلر (düşmənlər))

  1. enemy

Declension


Baluchi

Noun

دشمن (dušman)

  1. enemy

See also


Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Persian دشمن (došman).

Noun

دشمن (düşmen)

  1. enemy, foe

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian dwšmn', dwšmyn' (dušmen, enemy), Manichaean Middle Persian dwšmyn (dušmen, enemy), an old compound from at least Indo-Iranian period originally meaning "evil-minded", the component parts go back to Proto-Indo-European *dus- (bad) and *ménos (mind); see there for more.

Pronunciation

Noun

Dari دشمن
Iranian Persian دشمن
Tajik душман (dušman)

دشمن (došman) (plural دشمنان (došmanân))

  1. enemy

Inflection

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Urdu

Etymology

From Persian دشمن (došman).

Noun

دشمن (duśman) m (Hindi spelling दुश्मन)

  1. enemy, foe

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