استفسار

Arabic

Root
ف س ر (f-s-r)

Etymology

Verbal noun of اِسْتَفْسَرَ (istafsara) from the root ف س ر (f-s-r).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /is.tif.saːr/

Noun

اِسْتِفْسَار • (istifsār) m (plural اِسْتِفْسَارَات (istifsārāt))

  1. (countable) a question, query, inquiry

Declension

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: istifsar
  • Urdu: استفسار

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1830–1837) “استفسار”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), Halle: C. A. Schwetschke
  • Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “استفسار”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “استفسار”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
  • Wehr, Hans (1960) “استفسار”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz

Urdu

Etymology

From Arabic اِسْتِفْسَار (istifsār).

Noun

استفسار • (istefsār) m

  1. question, query, inquiry
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