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Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian فِتْنَه (fitna), from Arabic فِتْنَة (fitna).
Pronunciation
Noun
فِتْنَہ • (fitna) m (Hindi spelling फ़ितना)
- evil, chaos, doom
- trial, temptation, misdirection (to disbelief)
- tumult
Declension
Further reading
- “فتنہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “فتنہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “فتنہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “فتنه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 776
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “فتنه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 867
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