ذره

See also: ذرہ, ذرة, درہ, درة, and دره

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ذَرَّة (ḏarra).

Noun

ذره • (zerre) (plural ذرات (zerrat))

  1. atom, mote, speck
    ذره قدر
    zerre kadar
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. molecule

Descendants

  • Turkish: zerre
  • → Serbo-Croatian: zehra, зехра

Further reading

  • Robert Avery et al., editors (2013), “zerre”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911), “ذره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 604b

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ذَرَّة (ḏarra).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? ḏarra
Dari reading? zarra
Iranian reading? zarre
Tajik reading? zarra

Adjective

ذره • (zarra / zarre) (Tajik spelling зарра)

  1. teeny
  2. tiny
  3. small
  4. little

Adverb

ذره • (zarra / zarre) (Tajik spelling зарра)

  1. little
  2. just

Noun

ذره • (zarra / zarre) (plural ذرات (zarrāt / zarrât), or ذره‌ها (zarra-hā / zarre-hâ), Tajik spelling зарра)

  1. molecule
  2. particle

Derived terms

  • پادذره (pād-zarra / pâd-zarre, “antiparticle”)
  • ذره‌بین (zarra-bīn / zarre-bin, “magnifying glass”)

Descendants

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