فضول

See also: فصول

Arabic

Root
ف ض ل (f-ḍ-l)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fu.dˤuːl/
  • (Morocco) IPA^(key): /fdˤuːl/

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

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /fʊ.zuːl/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): [fɪ.zuːl], [fə.zuːl]
• Rhymes: -uːl
• Hyphenation: فُ‧ضُول

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 (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 [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], 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, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC