افراد

See also: أفراد

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic فَرْد (fard, “an individual”).

Noun

افراد • (efrad or efrat)

1. plural of فرد (ferd): individuals; ordinary people
2. (military) privates, recruits, soldiers (distinguished from officers)
   • 1898 July 2, photo caption on cover of Servet-i Fünun:

     تسالیا غازیلرندن طربزون الاینه منسوب افراد شاهانه‌نك دائرهٔ حكومت پیشكاهنه قورولان طاق ظفردن مرورلری

     Tesalya gazilerinden Trabizon alayına mensub efrad şahanenin daire-i hükûmet pişgah kurulan tak-i zaferden mürurları

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• Turkish: efrat

Further reading

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “efrat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “افراد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 155
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “efrad”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَفْرَاد (ʔafrād), plural form of Arabic فَرْد (fard, “individual”).

Noun

افراد • (afrâd)

1. plural of فرد (fard)

Descendants

• → Hindustani: afrād

  Hindi: अफ़राद

  Urdu: اَفْراد

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian افراد (afrād), plural form of فرد (fard), from Arabic فَرْد (fard, “individual”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /əf.ɾɑːd̪/
• Rhymes: -ɑːd̪
• Hyphenation: اَفْ‧راد

Noun

اَفْراد • (afrād) m pl (indeclinable, Hindi spelling अफ़राद)

1. persons, individuals

   Synonym: لوگ (log)

2. kinds, spices

References

• “افراد”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “افراد”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.