दफ़्तर

दफ़्तर

Hindi

Alternative forms

• दफ्तर (daphtar)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian دفتر‎ (daftar), from Arabic دَفْتَر‎ (daftar) or Middle Persian dptl (daftar), from Aramaic דפתרא‎ / ܕܦܬܪܐ‎, from Ancient Greek διφθέρα (diphthéra).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /d̪əf.t̪əɾ/, /d̪əpʰ.t̪əɾ/

Noun

दफ़्तर • (daftar) m (Urdu spelling دفتر‎)

1. office, bureau
2. roll, volume (of records), register
3. archive

Declension

Declension of दफ़्तर (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	दफ़्तर daftar	दफ़्तर daftar
oblique	दफ़्तर daftar	दफ़्तरों daftarõ
vocative	दफ़्तर daftar	दफ़्तरो daftaro

Synonyms

• कार्यालय (kāryālay)

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “दफ़्तर”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 476