Tag: prefix

Сохтани роҳ дар кӯҳҳо ниҳоят душвор, серхароҷот ва ҳатто дар баъзе ҷойҳо ғайриимкон аст.
Building roads in the mountains is extremely difficult, costly and even in some places impossible.
Барои Худо ҳеҷ чизи ғайриимкон нест.
For God nothing is impossible

Bonus:
имкон: possibility (noun)

The prefix ғаири means “without”, “outside” or “except for” so you can think of ғайриимкон as “without possibility”.

Other words with suffix ғаири –
ғайриилмӣ: unscientific
ғайримактабӣ: extra-curricular, outside of school
ғайрикорӣ: outside of work (or working hours)
ғайрикофӣ: not enough, insufficient
ғайримаҷбурӣ: without force, non-compulsory

Боғбонҳои пуртаҷриба ниҳолҳоро парвариш мекунанд.
Experienced gardeners grow (tend to) the seedlings.
Ба назари ман, Дилшод Назаров варзишгари хеле пуртаҷриба аст.
In my opinion, Dilshod Nazarov is a very experienced sportsman.

Bonus:
пур (full) + таҷриба (experience) = пуртаҷриба (experienced, full of experience)
Пуртаҷриба can also be translated “talented”, which is possibly a better translation for the second sentence.
Dilshod Nazarov is a talented Tajik athlete who won the first ever Olympic medal for Tajikistan in 2016, competing in the hammer throw.
Пур is a very useful prefix to add to nouns to make adjectives. Here are more examples:
пурзаҳр: very poisonous (заҳр: poison)
пургап: talkative (гап: speech, talk)
пурнамак: salty (намак: salt)
пурсабр: very patient (сабр: patience)

Муҳаббат пурсабр ва меҳрубон аст.
Love is patient and kind.
Бо ҳар кас пурсабр бошед.
Be patient with everyone.

Bonus:
Adding the prefix пур to a noun creates an adjective.
сабр – patience (n); пурсабр – patient (adj)
Here are some more examples:
ғазаб – anger (n); пурғазаб – angry (adj)
таҷриба – experience (n); пуртаҷриба – experienced (adj)
ҳикмат – wisdom (n); пурҳикмат – wise (adj)
санг – rock, stone (n); пурсанг – rocky, stony (adj)
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