فضول

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See also: فصول

Arabic

Root
ف ض ل (f-ḍ-l)

Pronunciation

Noun

فُضُول (fuḍūlm

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

Declension

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 (fuzūlm (Hindi spelling फ़ज़ूल)

  1. excess, redundance

Declension

Declension of فضول
singular plural
direct فُضُول (fuzūl) فُضُول (fuzūl)
oblique فُضُول (fuzūl) فُضُولوں (fuzūlō̃)
vocative فُضُول (fuzūl) فُضُولو (fuzūlō)

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