انکار

See also: انگار, إنكار, and انكار

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِنْكَار (ʔinkār).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔin.ˈkaːr/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪŋ.kʰɑːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪŋ.kʰɑːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɪŋ.kʰɑːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔiŋ.kʰɔːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔeŋ.kʰɒːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔiŋ.kʰɔɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	inkār
Dari reading?	inkār
Iranian reading?	enkâr
Tajik reading?	inkor

• Rhymes: -ɑːr

Noun

انکار • (enkâr)

1. denial

Derived terms

• انکار کردن (enkâr kardan)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اِنْکار (inkār), from Arabic إِنْكَار (ʔinkār).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɪn.kɑːɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɾ
• Hyphenation: اِن‧کار

Noun

اِنْکار • (inkār) m (Hindi spelling इनकार)

1. denial; rejection; gainsay
2. refusal
3. deviation
4. abstinence; refrain

Declension

Declension of انکار

	singular	plural
direct	اِنْکار (inkār)	اِنْکار (inkār)
oblique	اِنْکار (inkār)	اِنْکاروں (inkārõ)
vocative	اِنْکار (inkār)	اِنْکارو (inkāro)

Related terms

• اِنْکار کَرْنا (inkār karnā, “to reject”)

See also

Urdu terms derived from the Arabic root ن ك ر (0 c, 2 e)

Further reading

• “انکار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “انکار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “انکار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “انکار”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “اِن؟کار”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 157
• John Shakespear (1834), “انکار”, 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