شرافت

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شَرَافَت (šarāfat), from Arabic شَرَافَة (šarāfa).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʃə.ɾɑː.fət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: شَ‧را‧فَت

Noun

شَرافَت • (śarāfat) f (Hindi spelling शराफ़त)

1. civility; decency
2. courtesy, good manners
3. nobility, aristocracy

Declension

Declension of شرافت
	singular	plural
direct	شَرافَت (śarāfat)	شَرافَتیں (śarāfatẽ)
oblique	شَرافَت (śarāfat)	شَرافَتوں (śarāfatõ)
vocative	شَرافَت (śarāfat)	شَرافَتو (śarāfato)

Further reading

• “شرافت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “شرافت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “شرافت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 402
• Platts, John T. (1884) “شرافت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 724
• John Shakespear (1834) “شرافت”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “شرافت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 815

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu شَرافَت (śarāfat).

Noun

شرافت (šarāfat)

1. civility
2. decency
3. nobility
4. morality