کفارہ

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Urdu[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Classical Persian کَفَّارَه (kaffāra), from Arabic كَفَّارَة (kaffāra). Doublet of کَفَّارَت (kaffārat).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

کَفَّارَہ (kaffāram (Hindi spelling कफ़्फ़ारा)

  1. penance; atonement; expiation (ie. for committing a sin)
  2. indemnity; compensation

Declension[edit]

Declension of کفارہ
singular plural
direct کَفَّارہ (kaffārah) کَفَّارے (kaffāre)
oblique کَفَّارے (kaffāre) کَفَّاروں (kaffārõ)
vocative کَفَّارے (kaffāre) کَفَّارو (kaffāro)

Further reading[edit]

  • کفارہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • کفارہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “کفاره”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “کفاره”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 839
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “کفاره”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 934
  • John Shakespear (1834) “کفاره”, 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