تغافل

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
غ ف ل (ḡ f l)
4 terms

Pronunciation

  • Verb: IPA(key): /ta.ɣaː.fa.la/
  • Noun: IPA(key): /ta.ɣaː.ful/

Verb

تَغَافَلَ (taḡāfala) VI (non-past يَتَغَافَلُ (yataḡāfalu), verbal noun تَغَافُل (taḡāful))

  1. to feign negligence
  2. to neglect
Conjugation

Noun

تَغَافُل (taḡāfulm

  1. verbal noun of تَغَافَلَ (taḡāfala) (form VI)
Declension
Descendants

Further reading

Etymology 2

Verb

تغافل (form III)

  1. تُغَافِلُ (tuḡāfilu) /tu.ɣaː.fi.lu/: inflection of غَافَلَ (ḡāfala):
    1. second-person masculine singular non-past active indicative
    2. third-person feminine singular non-past active indicative
  2. تُغَافَلُ (tuḡāfalu) /tu.ɣaː.fa.lu/: inflection of غَافَلَ (ḡāfala):
    1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive indicative
    2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive indicative
  3. تُغَافِلَ (tuḡāfila) /tu.ɣaː.fi.la/: inflection of غَافَلَ (ḡāfala):
    1. second-person masculine singular non-past active subjunctive
    2. third-person feminine singular non-past active subjunctive
  4. تُغَافَلَ (tuḡāfala) /tu.ɣaː.fa.la/: inflection of غَافَلَ (ḡāfala):
    1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive subjunctive
    2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive subjunctive
  5. تُغَافِلْ (tuḡāfil) /tu.ɣaː.fil/: inflection of غَافَلَ (ḡāfala):
    1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive
    2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive
  6. تُغَافَلْ (tuḡāfal) /tu.ɣaː.fal/: inflection of غَافَلَ (ḡāfala):
    1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive jussive
    2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive jussive

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَغَافُل (taḡāful).

Noun

تغافل (tegafül)

  1. a being unmindful and careless
  2. a pretending to be unmindful

Descendants

Further reading

Pashto

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَغَافُل (taḡāful).

Noun

تغافل (taǧāfúlm

  1. negligence

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَغَافُل (taḡāful).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? tağāful
Dari reading? tağāful
Iranian reading? tağâfol
Tajik reading? taġoful

Noun

Dari تغافل
Iranian Persian
Tajik тағофул

تغافل (tağâfol)

  1. feigning negligence
  2. negligence

Further reading

Urdu

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic تَغَافُل (taḡāful).

Pronunciation

Noun

تَغافُل (taġāfulm (Hindi spelling तग़ाफ़ुल)

  1. unmindfulness, heedlessness, forgetfulness, neglect, negligence, inattention, inadvertence, indifference, listlessness
    Synonym: غفلت

Derived terms

Further reading

  • تغافل”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “تغافل”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • تغافل”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.