افطار

See also: إفطار and أقطار

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِفْطَار (ʔifṭār).

Noun

افطار • (iftar)

(Islam) iftar

Descendants

Turkish: iftar
→ Albanian: iftar

Persian

Persian Wikipedia has an article on:

افطار

Wikipedia ^fa

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِفْطَار (ʔifṭār).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔif.ˈtɑːɾ]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪf.t̪ʰɑ́ːɾ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɪf.t̪ʰɑ́ːɾ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔif.t̪ʰɔ́ːɾ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔef.t̪ʰɒ́ːɹ]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔif.t̪ʰɔ́ɾ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	iftār
Dari reading^?	iftār
Iranian reading^?	eftâr
Tajik reading^?	iftor

Rhymes: -ɑːr

Noun


Iranian Persian	افطار
Dari	افطار
Tajik	ифтор

افطار • (eftâr)

(Islam) Iftar, the evening meal that breaks each day's fast during Ramadan.

Descendants

→ Gujarati: ઇફતાર (iphatār)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (iftār), from Arabic إِفْطَار (ʔifṭār).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɪf.t̪ɑːɾ/
Rhymes: -ɑːɾ
Hyphenation: اِف‧طار

Noun

اِفْطار • (iftār) m (Hindi spelling इफ़्तार)

(Islam) iftar

Declension

Declension of افطار
	singular	plural
direct	اِفْطار (ift̤ār)	اِفْطار (ift̤ār)
oblique	اِفْطار (ift̤ār)	اِفْطاروں (ift̤ārõ)
vocative	اِفْطار (ift̤ār)	اِفْطارو (ift̤āro)

“افطار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
“افطار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “افطار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.

افطار

Contents

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Noun

Descendants

Persian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Descendants

Urdu

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

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