درود - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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From Middle Persian [script needed] (drwd /⁠drōd⁠/, “well-being, health, welfare”), from Old Persian *druwatā-, from 𐎯𐎢𐎽𐎢𐎺 (du-u-ru-u-v /⁠duruva-⁠/, “secure, healthy”), from Proto-Iranian *druwáh. Compare Avestan 𐬛𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬙𐬁𐬝 (druuatāt̰, “health”) (from 𐬛𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬀- (druua-)) and Sanskrit ध्रुव (dhruvá, “fixed, immovable; firm”). Related to Old Armenian դրուատ (druat). As a greeting compare Russian здоро́во (zdoróvo, “hi”).

Readings
Classical reading?	darōḏ, darūḏ, durūḏ
Dari reading?	darūd, durūd
Iranian reading?	darud, dorud
Tajik reading?	durud

• Rhymes: -uːd

درود • (dorud)

1. hello; hi; hail

درود • (dorud)

1. greeting, salutation

   سلام و درود از خراسان ― salâm o dorud az xorasân ― hello and greetings from Khorasan

2. health; well-being; welfare

• → Bengali: দরূদ (dorud)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: दुरूद (durūd)

  Urdu: دُرُود (durūd)

  • → English: durood
• → Punjabi: دَرُود (darūd)

From Proto-Iranian *dā́ru, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dā́ru, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru. Also see دار (dâr), درخت (deraxt). Aghwan 𐔳𐕒𐕡𐕙𐕒𐕡𐔳 (durud) is an Iranian borrowing.

Readings
Classical reading?	darūḏ, durūḏ
Dari reading?	darūd, durūd
Iranian reading?	darud, dorud
Tajik reading?	dured

درود • (dorud)

1. (uncommon) timber
2. (uncommon or Iran) plank

• درید (dorid)

• درگر (dorgar, “carpenter”)
• درودگری (dorudgari, “carpentry”)

• نجار (najjâr, “carpenter”)

Borrowed from Classical Persian درود (/⁠durūd⁠/), from Middle Persian drwd (drōd). First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi درود (drvd /⁠drūd⁠/),^[1]

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ʊ.ɾuːd̪/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): [d̪ə.ɾuːd̪]
• Rhymes: -uːd̪
• Hyphenation: دُ‧رُود

دُرُود • (durūd) m (Hindi spelling दुरूद)

1. blessing, salutation
2. (Islam) Salawat (durood – the uttering of specific phrases to bless the prophet Muhammad whenever he is mentioned or encountered in a text)

   Synonym: سَلام (salām)

3. (by extension) Ellipsis of دُرُود شَرِیف (durūd śarīf).

• → English: durood

• “درود”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “درود”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]