عفو

• IPA^(key): /ʕafw/

عَفْو • (ʕafw) m

1. verbal noun of عَفَا (ʕafā) (form I)
2. pardon, forgiveness, remission of sins, amnesty, absolution
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   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:219:

     وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ مَاذَا يُنْفِقُونَ قُلِ ٱلْعَفْوَ

     wayasʔalūnaka māḏā yunfiqūna quli l-ʕafwa

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• → Azerbaijani: əfv
• → Chagatai: عَفْو
  • Uyghur: ئەپۇ (epu)
  • Uzbek: afv
• → Northern Kurdish: efû
• → Ottoman Turkish: عفو (ʻafv)
  • Turkish: af
• → Persian: عفو ('afv)
• → Urdu: عفو

IPA^(key): /ʕa.fuww/

عَفُوّ • (ʕafuww)

1. remitting much, clement, inclined to frequent pardon
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 4:149:

     إِنْ تُبْدُوا خَيْرًا أَوْ تُخْفُوهُ أَوْ تَعْفُوا عَنْ سُوءٍ فَإِنَّ اللَّٰهَ كَانَ عَفُوًّا قَدِيرًا

     ʔin tubdū ḵayran ʔaw tuḵfūhu ʔaw taʕfū ʕan sūʔin faʔinna llāha kāna ʕafuwwan qadīran

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• → Azerbaijani: əfüvv
• → Chagatai: عَفُوّ
  • Uzbek: afuvv
• → Kazakh: ғапу (ğapu)
• → Ottoman Turkish: عفو (ʻafüvv)
  • Turkish: afüvv
• → Tatar: гафу (ğafu)
• → Persian: عفو ('afovv)
• → Urdu: عفو

Borrowed from Arabic عَفْو (ʕafw).

عفو • (ʻafv)

1. a forgiving, forgiveness, pardon
2. an excusing from some duty
3. a dismissing or releasing from some office, dismissal; release

• عفو اتمك (ʻafv etmek)
• عفو اولمق (ʻafv olmak)
• عفو اولنمز (ʻafv olunmaz)
• عفو اولنمق (ʻafv olunmak)
• عفو عمومی (ʻafv-ı ʻumûmî)

• Turkish: af

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عفو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, pages 1308–1309

Borrowed from Arabic عَفُوّ (ʕafuww).

عفو • (ʻafüvv)

1. habitually forgiving
2. all-forgiving (God)

• Turkish: afüvv

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عفو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1309

Borrowed from Arabic عَفْو (ʕafw).

عفو • ('afv)

1. erasing, cancelling, obliterating
2. effacing the vestiges of the house, covering them with dust (wind)
3. forgiving, passing by a transgression
4. remitting punishment
5. loathing anything
6. pardon, forgiveness, remission of sins

Borrowed from Arabic عَفُوّ (ʕafuww).

عفو • ('afovv)

1. one who forgives much

   عفو و غفور ― 'afovv va ğafur ― (God) the pardoner and forgiver

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “عفو”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “عفو”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

Borrowed from Arabic عَفْو (ʕafw).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)əfʋ/

عفو • ('afv) m

1. absolution, forgiveness, pardon, remission (of sins)

Borrowed from Arabic عَفُوّ (ʕafuww).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)ə.fʊʋʋ/

عفو • ('afuvv)

1. forgiving, merciful

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