آفرین

• IPA^(key): /ʔaː.fi.riːn/

آفِرِين • (ʔāfirīn)

1. bravo!, well done!

• آفرم (aferim)

From Persian آفرین (afarin)

آفرین • (aferin)

1. well done! bravo!

• The recipient of the praise is in the dative.

آفرین • (aferin)

1. A kind of Shiraz and Baghdad lambskin.^[1]

• Turkish: aferin

From Middle Persian 𐭠𐭯𐭥𐭩𐭭 (āfrīn, “praise, blessing”), from Proto-Iranian *ā- + *fraiH- (“to rejoice, atone, please”). The former prefix is from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“to, at”), and the latter component is from Proto-Indo-European *preyH- (“to please; to love”).

آفرین • (âfarin)

1. acclamation

   Antonym: نفرین (nefrin)

آفرین • (âfarin)

1. present stem form of آفریدن (âfaridan)

آفرین • (âfarin, âferin, âfrin)

1. well done, bravo

   Synonyms: ایول (eyval), احسنت (ahsant)

• آفری (âfari) (dialectal, Herati)

• → Azerbaijani: afərin
• → Bashkir: афарин (afarin)
• → Georgian: აფერუმ (aperum)
  • → Mingrelian: ანფერ (anper)
• → Gujarati: આફરીન (āpharīn)
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: आफ़रीन (āfrīn), आफ़रीं (āfrī̃), आफ़िरीं (āfirī̃)
  • Urdu: آفرین (āfrīn)
• → Punjabi: ਆਫ਼ਰੀਨ (āfarīn), آفرین (āfrīn)
• → Old Anatolian Turkish: (āferīn)
  • Ottoman Turkish: آفرم (âferim), آفرین (aferin)
    • Turkish: aferin
    • → Arabic: عَفَارِم (ʕafārim)
    • → Albanian: aferim
    • → Armenian: աֆերիմ (aferim)
    • → Bulgarian: а́ферим (áferim)
    • → Macedonian: аферим (aferim)
    • → Romanian: aferim
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: афѐрим

      Latin script: afèrim

• Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 87-8

Borrowed from Classical Persian آفرین (āfarīn), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭯𐭥𐭩𐭭 (āfrīn, “praise, blessing”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑːf.ɾiːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

آفرین • (āfrīn) (Hindi spelling आफ़रीन)

1. bravo!, excellent!, good job!, well done!