نافرمان

نافرمان

Persian

Etymology

ناـ‎ (nâ-) +‎ فَرمان‎ (farmân)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /nɑːfaɾmɑːn/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /nɒːfaɾmɒːn/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /nɒːfæɾmɒːn/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /nɔːfaɾmɔːn/

Adjective

نافَرمان • (nâfarmân) (comparative نافَرمان‌تَر‎ (nâfarmân-tar), superlative نافَرمان‌تَرین‎ (nâfarmân-tarin))

1. unruly

Descendants

• → Bengali: নাফরমান (naphôrman)
• → Dogri: nāfarmān

  Devanagari: नाफ़रमान

  Dogra: 𑠝𑠬𑠟𑠺𑠤𑠢𑠬𑠝

• → Gujarati: નાફરમાન (nāpharmān)
• → Hindustani: nāfarmān

  Hindi: नाफ़रमान

  Urdu: نَافَرْمَان‎

• → Punjabi: nāfarmān

  Gurmukhi: ਨਾਫ਼ਰਮਾਨ

  Shahmukhi: نافرمان‎

• → Sindhi:

  Arabic: نافرمان‎

  Devanagari: नाफ़र्मान

  Khudawadi: 𑋑𑋠𑋓𑋩𑋙𑋪𑋗𑋠𑋑 (nāfarmāna)

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Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نافرمان‎ (nāfarmān). By surface analysis, نَاـ‎ (nā-) +‎ فَرْمَان‎ (farmān).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /nɑː.fəɾ.mɑːn/
• Hyphenation: نَا‧فَرْ‧مَان
• Rhymes: -ɑːn

Adjective

نَافَرْمَان • (nāfarmān) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling नाफ़रमान)

1. disobedient

Derived terms

• نَافَرْمَانِی‎ (nāfarmānī, “disobedience”)

Further reading

• “نافرمان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “nā-farmān”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1111
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “نا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 631
• “نافرمان”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.