آفت

See also: افت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic آفَة (ʔāfa).

Noun

آفت • (afet)

1. calamity
2. disaster
3. misfortune

Descendants

• Turkish: afet

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic آفَة (ʔāfa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔaː.ˈfat/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.fát̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.fát̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.fát̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔː.fát̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒː.fǽt̪ʰ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɔ.fát̪]

• Rhymes: -at

Readings
Classical reading?	āfat
Dari reading?	āfat
Iranian reading?	âfat
Tajik reading?	ofat

Noun

Dari	آفت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	офат

آفت • (âfat)

1. calamity
2. plague

Descendants

• → Bengali: আফত (afôt)
• → Chagatai: آفت (ʾʾft)
  • Uyghur: ئاپەت (apet)
  • Uzbek: ofat
• → Kazakh: апат (apat)
• → Kyrgyz: апаат (apaat)
• → Tatar: афәт (afät)
• → Turkmen: äpet, apat
• → Urdu: آفت (āfat)

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic آفَة (ʔāfa)bor.

Classical Persian آفَت (āfat)bor.

Urdu آفَت

Borrowed from Classical Persian آفَت (āfat), borrowed from Arabic آفَة (ʔāfa).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑː.fət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: آ‧فَت

Noun

آفَت • (āfat) f (formal plural آفات (āfāt), Hindi spelling आफ़त)

1. calamity, disaster
2. (figuratively) difficulty, problem
3. (by extension) din, uproar, noise
4. suffering
5. atrocity, cruelty, brutality

Declension

Declension of آفت

	singular	plural
direct	آفَت (āfat)	آفَتیں (āfatẽ)
oblique	آفَت (āfat)	آفَتوں (āfatõ)
vocative	آفَت (āfat)	آفَتو (āfato)

Further reading

• “آفت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “آفت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “آفت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “آفت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “آفت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834), “آفت”, 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