هفته

See also: ہفتہ

Azerbaijani

Noun

هفته (həftə) (definite accusative هفته‌نی (həftəni), plural هفته‌لر (həftələr))

1. Arabic spelling of həftə (“week”)

Declension

Declension of هفته

	singular	plural
nominative	هفته	هفته‌لر
definite accusative	هفته‌نی	هفته‌لری
dative	هفته‌یه	هفته‌لره
locative	هفته‌ده	هفته‌لرده
ablative	هفته‌دن	هفته‌لردن
definite genitive	هفته‌نین	هفته‌لرین

Pashto

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian هفته (hafte).

Noun

هفته • (həfta) f

1. week

   Synonym: اونۍ (onəi)

Further reading

• “هفته”, in Pashto Dictionary, Peshawar, Pakistan: Pukhtoogle, 2020.
• Aslanov, M. G. (1985) “هفته”, in Puštu-russkij slovarʹ [Pashto–Russian Dictionary], 2nd edition, Moscow: Russkij jazyk
• Raverty, H. G. (1867) “هفته”, in A dictionary of the Puk'hto, Pus'hto, or language of the Afghans: with remarks on the originality of the language, and its affinity to other oriental tongues, London: Williams & Nortgate
• Henry Walter Bellew (1867) A Grammar of the Puḵḵẖto Or Pukshto Language, W.H. Allen&Company

Persian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥

Proto-Indo-Iranian *saptá

Proto-Iranian *haptá

Middle Persian hp̄t'

Persian هَفْت

Proto-Iranian *-a-

Proto-Iranian *-kah

Proto-Iranian *-akah

Persian ـه

Persian هَفْتِه

From هفت (haft, “seven”) +‎ ـه (-e). Akin to Sanskrit सप्ताह (saptāha).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [haf.ˈta]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [häf.t̪ʰǽ]

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

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [hæf.t̪ʰé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [häf.t̪ʰǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	hafta
Dari reading?	hafta
Iranian reading?	hafte
Tajik reading?	hafta

• Audio (Iran):

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Noun

Dari	هَفْتَه
Iranian Persian	هَفْتِه
Tajik	ҳафта

هَفْتِه • (hafte) (plural هفته‌ها (hafte-hâ))

1. week

Derived terms

• هفتگی (haftegi)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: həftə
• → Bengali: হপ্তা (hopta)
• → Gujarati: હપતો (hapto)
• → Kazakh: апта (apta)
• → Kyrgyz: апта (apta)
• → Turkish: hafta
  • → Laz: ხაჶთა (xafta)
• → Marathi: हप्ता (haptā)
• → Nepali: हप्ता (haptā)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: हफ़्ता (haftā), हफ्ता (haphtā)

  Urdu: ہَفْتَہ (hafta)

  • → Ushojo: ہفتہ (haftah)
  • → Wakhi: ہفتہ (haftah)

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਹਫ਼ਤਾ (haftā)

  Shahmukhi script: ہفتہ (hafta)

• → Rohingya: háfta
• → Uyghur: ھەپتە (hepte)
• → Uzbek: hafta
• → Turkmen: hepde

See also

• (days of the week) روزْهایِ هَفْتِه (ruz-hâ-ye hafte)‎; شَنْبِه (šanbe)‎, یِک‌شَنْبِه (yek-šanbe)‎, دوشَنْبِه (došanbe)‎, سِه‌شَنْبِه (se-šanbe)‎, چَهارْشَنْبِه (čahâršanbe)‎, پَنْج‌شَنْبِه (panj-šanbe)‎, آدینِه (âdine)‎/جُمْعِه (jom'e)‎ ^{(Category: fa:Days of the week)}