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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic آفَة (ʔāfa).
Noun
آفت • (afet)
- calamity
- disaster
- misfortune
Descendants
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic آفَة (ʔāfa).
Pronunciation
Readings
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Classical reading?
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āfat
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Dari reading?
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āfat
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Iranian reading?
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âfat
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Tajik reading?
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ofat
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Noun
Dari
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آفت
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Iranian Persian
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Tajik
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офат
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آفت • (âfat)
- calamity
- plague
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian آفت (āfat), from Arabic آفَة (ʔāfa).
Pronunciation
Noun
آفت • (āfat) f (Hindi spelling आफ़त)
- calamity
- plague
- adversity
- catastrophe
- disaster
References
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “آفت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.