إفطار

إفطار

See also: افطار‎ and أقطار‎

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ف ط ر‎ (f-ṭ-r).

Noun

إِفْطَار • (ʾifṭār) m

1. verbal noun of أَفْطَرَ‎ (ʾafṭara) (form IV)
2. breaking of fasting
3. breakfast
4. (Islam) iftar, the evening meal (of dates) that breaks each day's fast during Ramadan

Declension

Declension of noun إِفْطَار (ʾifṭār)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	إِفْطَار ʾifṭār	الْإِفْطَار‎ al-ʾifṭār	إِفْطَار ʾifṭār
Nominative	إِفْطَارٌ ʾifṭārun	الْإِفْطَارُ‎ al-ʾifṭāru	إِفْطَارُ ʾifṭāru
Accusative	إِفْطَارًا‎ ʾifṭāran	الْإِفْطَارَ‎ al-ʾifṭāra	إِفْطَارَ ʾifṭāra
Genitive	إِفْطَارٍ ʾifṭārin	الْإِفْطَارِ‎ al-ʾifṭāri	إِفْطَارِ ʾifṭāri

Descendants

• → English: iftar
• → Malay: iftar
• → Ottoman Turkish: افطار‎
  • Turkish: iftar
• → Persian: افطار‎
• → Swahili: iftar

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “إفطار”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen