آفتاب

Chagatai

Alternative forms

• افتاب (ʾftʾb /⁠āftāb⁠/)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian آفْتَاب (āftāb)

Noun

آفتاب • (ʾʾftʾb /āftāb/)

1. sun

   Synonyms: خور (xwr /⁠xur⁠/), خورشید (xwršyd /⁠xuršīd⁠/), کون (kwn /⁠kün⁠/), شمس (šms /⁠šams⁠/), قویاش (qwyʾš /⁠quyaš⁠/)

2. sunlight

Descendants

• Uyghur: ئاپتاپ (aptap)
• Uzbek: oftob

Further reading

• Ünlü, Suat (2013), Çağatay Türkçesi Sözlüğü [Dictionary of Chagatai Turkic] (in Turkish), Konya: Eğitim Yayınevi, →ISBN, pages 13, 14
• “آفتاب”, in 御製五體清文鑑 / han -i araha sunja hacin hergen kamciha manju gisun -i buleku bithe [Pentaglot Dictionary] (overall work in Manchu, Classical Tibetan, Classical Mongolian, Chagatai, and Mandarin), Beijing, (Can we date this quote?), page 6, transcribed as ᠠᠪᡨ᠋ᠠᠪ (abtab)

Kashmiri

Alternative forms

• آفتابہٕ (āftābụ)
• اَختابہٕ (akhtābụ)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian آفْتَاب (āftāb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aːftaːb/

Proper noun

آفتاب • (āftāb) m

1. Sun

   Synonyms: سِرؠ یہِ (sir' yi), رَو (rav), خۄرشیٖد (khọrśīd), شَمَس (śamas)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian آفتاب (āftāb).

Noun

آفتاب • (afitab)

1. sun

   Synonyms: شمس (şems), گونش (güneş)

Persian

Alternative forms

• افتو (aftow) (dialectal, Khesht, Konartakhteh, Dashtestan, southwestern Fars)

Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐭠𐭯𐭲𐭠𐭡 (ʾptʾb /⁠āftāb⁠/, “sunshine”) (compare 𐮀𐮎𐮃𐮀𐮁 (ʾpdʾb /⁠ābdāb⁠/)), from Proto-Iranian *abi-tāpáh Equivalent to آف (âf) +‎ تاب (tâb).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔaːf.ˈtaːb/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːf.t̪ʰɑ́ːb]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːf.t̪ʰɑ́ːb]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔäf.t̪ʰáw]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔːf.t̪ʰɔ́ːb̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒːf.t̪ʰɒ́ːb̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɔf.t̪ʰɔ́b]

• Rhymes: -aːb

Readings
Classical reading?	āftāb
Dari reading?	āftāb
Iranian reading?	âftâb
Tajik reading?	oftob

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Noun

Dari	آفتاب
Iranian Persian
Tajik	офтоб

آفتاب • (âftâb)

1. sunlight, sunshine

   Coordinate term: مهتاب (mahtâb, “moonlight”)

2. sun

   Synonym: خورشید (xoršid)

   Coordinate term: ماه (mâh, “moon”)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3779:

     از ره پنهان که دور از حس ماست
     آفتاب چرخ را بس راههاست

     az rah-i pinhān ki dūr az hiss-i mā-st
     āftāb-i čarx rā bas rāh-hā-st

     By the hidden way that is remote from our sense-perception.
     The sun in heaven hath many ways

Derived terms

• آفتابی (âftâbi)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: aftab
• → Bengali: আফতাব (aphtab)
• → Chagatai: آفتاب (ʾʾftʾb)
  • Uyghur: ئاپتاپ (aptap)
  • Uzbek: oftob
  • → Kazakh: аптап (aptap)
• → Gujarati: આફતાબ (āphatāb)
• → Classical Malay:
  • Indonesian: aftab
  • Malay: aftab
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: आफ़ताब (āftāb)

  Urdu: آفتاب (āftāb)

• → Ottoman Turkish: آفتاب
• → Punjabi: ਆਫ਼ਤਾਬ (āfatāb)
• → Turkmen: abtap
• → Yaghnobi: офтоб (oftob)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian آفْتَاب (āftāb). First attested in c. 1635 as Middle Hindi آفتاب (āftab /⁠ãftāb⁠/).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑːf.t̪ɑːb/
• Rhymes: -ɑːb
• Hyphenation: آف‧تاب

Noun

آفْتاب • (āftāb) m (Hindi spelling आफ़ताब) (chiefly literary or poetic)

1. Sun

   Synonyms: سُورَج (sūraj), شَمْس (śams), خورْشِید (xorśīd), سُورِیَہ (sūriya)

2. sunshine; sunlight

   Synonym: دُھوپ (dhūp)

3. (obsolete) wine; goblet
4. (figuratively, poetic) beauty

Declension

Declension of آفتاب

	singular	plural
direct	آفْتاب (āftāb)	آفْتاب (āftāb)
oblique	آفْتاب (āftāb)	آفْتابوں (āftābõ)
vocative	آفْتاب (āftāb)	آفْتابو (āftābo)

Proper noun

آفْتاب • (āftāb) m (Hindi spelling आफ़ताब)

1. a male given name, Aftab, from Persian, meaning “Sunshine”
2. a surname, Aftab, from Persian, meaning “Sunshine”

Further reading

• “آفتاب”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “آفتاب”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 13
• Platts, John T. (1884), “آفتاب”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 61
• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “آفتاب”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 100
• John Shakespear (1834), “آفتاب”, 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, page 108