مشغول

Derived from the passive participle of شَغَلَ (šaḡala, “to occupy, to keep busy”).

• IPA^(key): /maʃ.ɣuːl/

مَشْغُول • (mašḡūl) (feminine مَشْغُولَة (mašḡūla), masculine plural مَشْغُولُونَ (mašḡūlūna), feminine plural مَشْغُولَات (mašḡūlāt))

1. busy
2. distracted
3. occupied (telephone line, seat, etc.)

• → Azerbaijani: məşğul
• → Bashkir: мәшғүл (məşğül)
• → Chagatai: مشغول
  • Uyghur: مەشغۇل (meshghul)
  • Uzbek: mashgʻul
• → Indonesian: masygul
• → Kumyk: машгъул (maşğul)
• → Middle Armenian: մշղըլիլ (mšġəlil)
• → Ottoman Turkish: مشغول (meşgul)
  • Turkish: meşgul
  • → Armenian: մաշխուլ (mašxul)
• → Pashto: مشغول
• → Persian: مشغول (mašğul)
  • → Bengali: মশগুল (mośgul)
  • → Gujarati: મશગૂલ (maśgūl)
  • → Hindustani: maśġūl

    Hindi: मशग़ूल

    Urdu: مَشْغُول (maśġūl)

  • → Punjabi: مَشْغُول (maśġūl)
  • → Sindhi:

    Arabic script: مَشْغوُل

    Devanagari script: मश्ग़ूल

• → Tatar: мәшгуль (mäşgul’)
• → Turkmen: meşgul
• → Uyghur: مەشغۇل (meshghul)
• → Uzbek: mashgʻul

مشغول

1. Arabic spelling of məşğul

مشغول • (mašḡūl) (feminine مشغولة)

1. busy, occupied

Borrowed from Arabic مَشْغُول (mašḡūl).

مشغول • (meşgul)

1. busy; occupied; preoccupied

• Turkish: meşgul

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مشغول”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1869

Borrowed from Arabic مَشْغُول (mašḡūl).

مشغول • (mašǧúl)

1. busy

• Qamosona.com

Borrowed from Arabic مَشْغُول (mašḡūl).

مَشغول • (mašğul)

1. busy, occupied (in doing something, etc.)

   پسر الان مشغول خواندن است. (more literary)

   pesar alân mašgul-e xândan ast.

   The boy is busy reading now.

   پسر الان مشغول خوندنه. (more colloquial)

   pesar alân mašgul-e xundan-e.

   The boy is busy reading now.

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume III, verse 1604:

     چون بجد مشغول باشد آدمی، او ز دید رنج خود باشد عمی

     čon be-jedd mašğul bâšad âdami, u ze did-e ranj-e xod bâšad 'ami.

     When a man is busy in earnest, he is blind to the sight of his pain.

2. occupied

• → Bengali: মশগুল (mośgul)
• → Gujarati: મશગૂલ (maśgūl)
• → Hindustani: maśġūl

  Hindi: मशग़ूल

  Urdu: مَشْغُول (maśġūl)

• → Punjabi: مَشْغُول (maśġūl)
• → Sindhi:

  Arabic script: مَشْغوُل

  Devanagari script: मश्ग़ूल

Borrowed from Classical Persian مشغول (mašğūl), from Arabic مَشْغُول (mašḡūl).

مَشْغُول • (maśġūl) (Gurmukhi spelling ਮਸ਼ਗ਼ੂਲ)

1. busy

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “مشغُول”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Borrowed from Classical Persian مشغول (mašğūl), from Arabic مَشْغُول (mašḡūl).

مَشْغوُلُ • (maśġūlu)

1. busy

• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “مَشْغوُلُ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
• “مشغول”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866-1938

From Arabic مَشْغُول (mašḡūl). Equivalent to the passive participle of شغل (šaḡal, “to occupy, keep busy”) .

• IPA^(key): /maʃ.ɣuːl/, [maʃˈɣuːl]

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مشغول • (mašḡūl) (feminine مشغولة (mašḡūle), common plural مشغولين (mašḡūlīn))

1. busy, occupied

   Synonym: شغال (šaḡḡāl)

   Antonym: فاضي (fāḍi)

Borrowed from Classical Persian مشغول (mašğul), from Arabic مَشْغُول (mašḡūl). Compare Sindhi مَشْغوُل / मश्ग़ूल, Gujarati મશગૂલ (maśgūl), Bengali মশগুল (mośgul)

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /məʃ.ɣuːl/
• Rhymes: -uːl
• Hyphenation: مَش‧غُول

مَشْغُول • (maśġūl) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling मशग़ूल)

1. occupied, engaged, busy [+ (object) میں = in]

   Synonym: مصروف (masrūf)

• مشغولیت (maśġūliyat)

• “مشغول”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “مشغول”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.