بفرض محال
Urdu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian بَفَرْضِ مُحَال (bafarz-i muhāl). By surface analysis, بَ (ba, “in”) + فَرْضِ (farz-i, “example; instance of”) + مُحال (muhāl, “inconceivable; impossible”), literally “in the case of the inconceivable”.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /bə.fəɾz.ɪ mʊ.ɦɑːl/, [bɑ.fəɾz.e mo.ɦɑːl]
- Rhymes: -ɑːl
- Hyphenation: بَ‧فَرْ‧ضِ‧مُ‧حَال
Prepositional phrase
[edit]بَفَرْضِ مُحَال • (bafarz-i muhāl) (Hindi spelling बफ़र्ज़-ए-मुहाल) (chiefly formal or literary)
- assuming [the inconceivable] is possible...
Further reading
[edit]- “ba-farz-e-mahaal”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.