راضی

See also: راضي and راضى

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَاضٍ (rāḍin).

Adjective

راضی • (râzı)

1. satisfied, contented, willing, approving, pleased

Derived terms

• راضیلق (râzılık)

Descendants

• Turkish: razı
• → Armenian: ըռազի (əṙazi)

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “راضی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 956

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَاضٍ (rāḍin).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɾɑː.ˈziː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [rɑː.zíː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [rɑː.zíː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [rɑː.zíː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [rɔː.zí]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɹɒː.zíː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɾɔ.zí]

Readings
Classical reading?	rāzī
Dari reading?	rāzī
Iranian reading?	râzi
Tajik reading?	rozi

• Homophone: رازی

Adjective

Dari	راضی
Iranian Persian
Tajik	розӣ

راضی • (râzi)

1. satisfied
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 561:

     باز میگشتم که او خود واقف است
     زین قضا راضی است مردی عارف است

     bāz mē-gaštam ki ō xwad wāqif ast
     z-īn qazā rāzī ast mar-ē 'ārif ast

     I was going back, (thinking), ‘He himself is aware;
     he is satisfied with this (Divine) judgement: he is a man that knows (God)’.

Derived terms

• راضی کردن (râzi kardan)

Descendants

• Tajik: розӣ (rozi)
• → Assamese: ৰাজী (razi)
• → Bengali: রাজি (raji)
• → Gujarati: રાજી (rājī)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: राज़ी (rāzī)

  Urdu: راضی (rāzī)

• → Maithili: राजी (rājī)
• → Marathi: राजी (rājī)
• → Odia: ରାଜି (rāji)
• → Punjabi: rāzī
  • Gurmukhi script: ਰਾਜ਼ੀ (rāzī)
  • Shahmukhi script: راضی (rāẓī)
• → Sindhi: rāzī

  Arabic script: راضي

  Devanagari script: राजी

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian راضی, from Arabic رَاضٍ (rāḍin).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɾɑː.ziː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: را‧ضی

Adjective

راضی • (rāzī) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling राज़ी)

1. content

   Synonym: رَضامَنْد (razāmand)

   Antonym: ناراض (nārāz, “upset”)

   1. willing to comply; compliant
   2. pleased, satisfied
   3. happy

Further reading

• “راضی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “راضی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “راضی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.