Arabic

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Persian حراج

Noun

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حَراج (ḥarājm

  1. (uncommon) sale, discount or auction
    Synonym: مزايدة

Persian

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Etymology

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Of Egyptian origin.[1][2] Probably borrowed from Coptic [Term?], itself a compound of ϩⲁ- (ha-, for (a price)), related to ἐπί (epí),[3] with a suffix of unknown origin. Unrelated to Arabic ح ر ج (ḥ-r-j) (“narrow, constricted, difficult”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? ha-rāj
Dari reading? ha-rāj
Iranian reading? he-râj
Tajik reading? ha-roj

Noun

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حراج (harāj)

  1. sale, discount or auction
    Synonym: تخفیف
    فردا یک حراج در بازار برگزار می‌شود.
    Fardā yek harāj dar bāzār bargozār mishavad.
    Tomorrow a sale will be held at the market.
  2. (dated) bazaar
  3. (archaic) exclamation made when an item is sold at auction
  4. (obsolete) troop of camels

Verb

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حراج (harāj)

  1. (transitive) to sell at a discount
    تصمیم گرفتند تمام محصولات را حراج کنند.
    Tasmim gereftand tamām-e mahsulāt rā harāj konand.
    They decided to discount all the products.
  2. (transitive) to auction

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References

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  1. ^ Sayyed Mohammad Ali (1926) “حراج”, in فرهنگ نظام [Farhang-e Nezam, The Nezam Dictionary]‎[1] (in Persian), Hyderabad, page 501:این لفظ عربی نیست در عربی حراج بمعنی گناه وگناه است که با این معنی مناسبت ندارد و این لفظ را مصر یها ساخته و ایرانها تقلید کرده اند۔This word is not Arabic; In Arabic, "haraj" means "sin" or "wrongdoing," which does not align with this meaning. This term was coined by Egyptians and adopted by Iranians.
  2. ^ Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “حراج”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
  3. ^ Crum, Walter E. (1939) A Coptic Dictionary[2], Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 633
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