نفاق

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Arabic

Noun

نَفَاق (nafāqm

  1. verbal noun of نَفَقَ (nafaqa) (form I)

Declension

Noun

نِفَاق (nifāqm

  1. verbal noun of نَافَقَ (nāfaqa) (form III)
  2. hypocrisy

Declension

Descendants

  • Gulf Arabic: نفاق (nifāq)

Gulf Arabic

Etymology

Root
ن ف ق
3 terms

From Arabic نِفَاق (nifāq).

Pronunciation

Noun

نِفاق (nifāqm

  1. hypocrisy

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نِفَاق (nifāq)

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? nifāq
Dari reading? nifāq
Iranian reading? nefâğ
Tajik reading? nifoq

Noun

Dari نفاق
Iranian Persian
Tajik нифоқ

نفاق (nifāq)

  1. discord
  2. hypocrisy
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume I, verse 3533:
      واگشایم هفت سوراخ نفاق
      در ضیای ماه بی‌‌خسف و محاق
      wāgušāyam haft sūrax-i-nifāq
      dar ziyā-i-māh bē-xasf u mahāq
      I will lay bare the seven rifts (sins) of hypocrisy
      in the light of the moon that suffers no eclipse or waning.

References

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَفَاق (nafāq).

Pronunciation

Noun

نفاق (nafāqm (Hindi spelling नफ़ाक़)

  1. schism
  2. (Christianity) great schism (east–west schism)
    نفاق عظیمnafāq 'azimgreat schism