तरफ़दारी

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian طرفداری (tarafdārī). By surface analysis, तरफ़ (taraf, “side”) +‎ -दारी (-dārī, “one who bears”).

Pronunciation
  • (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /t̪ə.ɾəf.d̪ɑː.ɾiː/, [t̪ɐ.ɾɐf.d̪äː.ɾiː], /t̪ə.ɾəpʰ.d̪ɑː.ɾiː/, [t̪ɐ.ɾɐpʰ.d̪äː.ɾiː]
  • Hyphenation: त‧रफ़‧दा‧री
  • Rhymes: -iː

Noun

तरफ़दारी • (tarafdārī) f (Urdu spelling طرفداری)

  1. partisanship, partiality, bias
    Synonym: पक्षपात (pakṣapāt)

Declension
Declension of तरफ़दारी (fem ī-stem)
singular plural
direct तरफ़दारी
tarafdārī		 तरफ़दारियाँ
tarafdāriyā̃
oblique तरफ़दारी
tarafdārī		 तरफ़दारियों
tarafdāriyõ
vocative तरफ़दारी
tarafdārī		 तरफ़दारियो
tarafdāriyo

Derived terms
  • तरफ़दारी करना (tarafdārī karnā)

Further reading
  • McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “tarafa”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 440
  • “तरफ़-दारी”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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