दुरुस्त

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian درست (durust), from Middle Persian drw(y)st' (/⁠druyist⁠/), ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰruwás. Doublet of ध्रुव (dhruv). Compare Bengali দুরস্ত (durosto), Gujarati દુરસ્ત (durast), Marathi दुरुस्त (durusta), Punjabi ਦਰੁਸਤ (darusat) / دَرُست (darust).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /d̪ʊ.ɾʊst̪/

Adjective

दुरुस्त • (durust) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling دُرُسْت)

1. right, good, okay

   Synonym: ठीक (ṭhīk)

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “दुरुस्त”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

Marathi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دُرُسْت (durust) with a semantic narrowing from “correct, right” to “repaired, corrected”. Doublet of ध्रुव (dhruv).

Cognates

Compare Bengali দুরস্ত (durosto), Hindi दुरुस्त (durust).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d̪u.ɾus.t̪ə/
• Hyphenation: दु‧रुस्‧त, दु‧रु‧स्त
• Rhymes: -ə

Adjective

दुरुस्त • (durusta) (indeclinable)

1. fixed, repaired
2. corrected, rectified

   दुरुस्त करणे ― durusta karṇe ― to repair, correct

Further reading

More information

• Berntsen, Maxine, “दुरुस्त”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies, 1982-1983, page 70.
• Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “दुरूस्त”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, page 419
• दाते, यशवंत रामकृष्ण [Date, Yashwant Ramkrishna] (1932-1950) “दुरुस्त”, in महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश (mahārāṣṭra śabdakoś) (in Marathi), पुणे [Pune]: महाराष्ट्र कोशमंडळ (mahārāṣṭra kośmaṇḍaḷ), page 1680.