اتفاق

See also: أنفاق and إنفاق

Arabic

Root
و ف ق (w-f-q)

Etymology

Verbal noun of اِتَّفَقَ (ittafaqa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /it.ti.faːq/
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Noun

اِتِّفَاق • (ittifāq) m (plural اِتِّفَاقَات (ittifāqāt))

  1. verbal noun of اِتَّفَقَ (ittafaqa) (form VIII)
  2. agreement, union, concord, harmony
  3. compact, league, alliance
  4. conspiracy

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “اتفاق”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “وفق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic اِتِّفَاق (ittifāq).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /it.ti.faːɡ/, [ɪt.tɪ.faːɡ]

Noun

اتفاق • (ittifāg) m (plural اِتِّفَاقات (ittifāgāt))

  1. agreement, union, concord, harmony
  2. conspiracy

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اِتِّفَاق (ittifāq).

According to Encyclopedia Iranica, the Dari sense of "Unity" or "Union" was a semantic borrowing from Urdu. Despite the Urdu word originally being borrowed from Persian.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ʔɪt̪.t̪ʰɪ.fɑːq]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [ʔɪt̪.t̪ʰɪ.fɑːq]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [ʔit̪.t̪ʰi.fɔːq]

Readings
Classical reading? ittifāq
Dari reading? ittifāq
Iranian reading? ettefâğ
Tajik reading? ittifoq

Noun

Dari اتفاق
Iranian Persian
Tajik иттифоқ

اتفاق • (ettefâq) (plural اتفاق‌ها (ettefâq-hâ) or اتفاقات (ettefâqât))

  1. occurrence, happening, event, especially a coincidental or unexpected one
    Synonyms: رویداد (rôy-dâd), رخداد (rox-dâd)
  2. agreeing, agreement, consent
  3. alliance
  4. (Dari) unity, union

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اتفاق (ittifāq), from Arabic اِتِّفَاق (ittifāq).

Pronunciation

Noun

اِتِّفاق • (ittifāq) m (Hindi spelling इत्तिफ़ाक़)

  1. unity, union, accordance, agreement, concord, harmony, community
  2. coincidence, accident chance, mischance, opportunity, venture

References

  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “اتفاق”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu اتفاق (ittifāq), from Classical Persian اتفاق (ittifāq), from Arabic اِتِّفَاق (ittifāq).

Noun

اتفاق (itifāq)

  1. agreement, unity, union
  2. coincidence, chance, accident
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