فضول

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See also: فصول

Arabic

Root
ف ض ل (f ḍ l)
10 terms

Pronunciation

Noun

فُضُول • (fuḍūl) m

  1. verbal noun of فَضَلَ (faḍala) (form I)
  2. curiosity

Declension

Declension of noun فُضُول (fuḍūl)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal فُضُول
fuḍūl 		الْفُضُول
al-fuḍūl 		فُضُول
fuḍūl
Nominative فُضُولٌ
fuḍūlun 		الْفُضُولُ
al-fuḍūlu 		فُضُولُ
fuḍūlu
Accusative فُضُولًا
fuḍūlan 		الْفُضُولَ
al-fuḍūla 		فُضُولَ
fuḍūla
Genitive فُضُولٍ
fuḍūlin 		الْفُضُولِ
al-fuḍūli 		فُضُولِ
fuḍūli

Persian

Adjective

فضول • (fozul)

  1. nosy, prying

Noun

فضول • (fozul)

  1. nosey parker

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian فُضُول (fuzūl), from Arabic فُضُول (fuḍūl).

Pronunciation

Adjective

فُضُول • (fuzūl) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling फ़ज़ूल)

  1. pointless; futile
    1. nonsense
    2. vulgar
  2. useless; needless
  3. redundant
  4. excessive; extravagant

Noun

فُضُول • (fuzūl) m (Hindi spelling फ़ज़ूल)

  1. excess, redundance

Declension

    Declension of فضول
singular plural
direct فُضُول (fuzūl) فُضُول (fuzūl)
oblique فُضُول (fuzūl) فُضُولوں (fuzūlõ)
vocative فُضُول (fuzūl) فُضُولو (fuzūlo)

Further reading

  • “فضول”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “فضول”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “فضول”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “فضول”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “فضول”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “فضول”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
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