افراد

See also: أفراد

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic فَرْد (fard, “an individual”).

Noun

افراد • (efrad or efrat)

1. plural of فرد (ferd): individuals; ordinary people
2. (military) privates, recruits, soldiers (distinguished from officers)
   • 1898 July 2, photo caption on cover of Servet-i Fünun:

     تسالیا غازیلرندن طربزون الاینه منسوب افراد شاهانه‌نك دائرهٔ حكومت پیشكاهنه قورولان طاق ظفردن مرورلری

     Tesalya gazilerinden Trabizon alayına mensub efrad şahanenin daire-i hükûmet pişgah kurulan tak-i zaferden mürurları

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• Turkish: efrat

Further reading

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “efrat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “افراد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 155
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “efrad”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَفْرَاد (ʔafrād), plural form of Arabic فَرْد (fard, “individual”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔaf.ˈraːd/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäf.ɾɑ́ːd̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäf.ɾɑ́ːd̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔäf.ɾɑ́ːd̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔäf.ɾɔ́ːd̪̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæf.ɹɒ́ːd̪̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäf.ɾɔ́d̪]

• Rhymes: -aːd

Readings
Classical reading?	afrād
Dari reading?	afrād
Iranian reading?	afrâd
Tajik reading?	afrod

Noun

افراد • (afrād / afrâd) (Tajik spelling афрод)

1. plural of فرد (fard)

Descendants

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: अफ़राद (afrād)

  Urdu: اَفْراد (afrād)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian افراد (afrād), plural form of فرد (fard), from Arabic فَرْد (fard, “individual”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /əf.ɾɑːd̪/
• Rhymes: -ɑːd̪
• Hyphenation: اَفْ‧راد

Noun

اَفْراد • (afrād) m pl (indeclinable, Hindi spelling अफ़राद)

1. plural of فَرْد (fard, “person, individual”); people, persons
2. kinds, types, species

References

• “افراد”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “افراد”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.