افطار

See also: إفطار and أقطار

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِفْطَار (ʔifṭār).

Noun

افطار • (iftar)

1. (Islam) iftar

Descendants

• Turkish: iftar
• → Albanian: iftar

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِفْطَار (ʔifṭār).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔif.ˈtɑːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪf.t̪ʰɑ́ːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪf.t̪ʰɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɪf.t̪ʰɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔif.t̪ʰɔ́ːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔef.t̪ʰɒ́ːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔif.t̪ʰɔ́ɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	iftār
Dari reading?	iftār
Iranian reading?	eftâr
Tajik reading?	iftor

• Rhymes: -ɑːr

Noun

Dari	افطار
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ифтор

افطار • (eftâr)

1. (Islam) Iftar, the evening meal that breaks each day's fast during Ramadan.

Descendants

• → Gujarati: ઇફતાર (iphatār)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian افطار (iftār), from Arabic إِفْطَار (ʔifṭār).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɪf.t̪ɑːɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɾ
• Hyphenation: اِف‧طار

Noun

اِفْطار • (iftār) m (Hindi spelling इफ़्तार)

1. (Islam) iftar

Declension

Declension of افطار
	singular	plural
direct	اِفْطار (ift̤ār)	اِفْطار (ift̤ār)
oblique	اِفْطار (ift̤ār)	اِفْطاروں (ift̤ārõ)
vocative	اِفْطار (ift̤ār)	اِفْطارو (ift̤āro)

Further reading

• “افطار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “افطار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “افطار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.