فرصت

See also: فرضت and قرضت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic فُرْصَة (furṣa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fuɾˈsɒt], [fɯɾˈsɒt]

Noun

فرصت • (fursat, fırsat)

1. opportunity, chance, occasion

Descendants

• Turkish: fırsat, fırsant, fırsand (dialectal)
• → Armenian: ֆըռսանտ (fəṙsant), ֆռսանտ (fṙsant), ֆուռսանդ (fuṙsand), ֆուրսանդ (fursand), ֆըրսանդ (fərsand), ֆրսանդ (frsand), ֆըռսանդ (fəṙsand), ֆռսանդ (fṙsand)
• → Serbo-Croatian: фу̀рса̄т, fùrsāt

Persian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic فُرْصَة (furṣa)bor.

Persian فُرصَت

Borrowed from Arabic فُرْصَة (furṣa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [fuɾ.ˈsat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [fʊɾ.sǽt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [fʊɾ.sǽt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [fʊɾ.sǽt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [fuɾ.sǽt̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [foɹ.sǽt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [fuɾ.sǽt̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	fursat
Dari reading?	fursat
Iranian reading?	forsat
Tajik reading?	fursat

Noun

Dari	فُرصَت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	фурсат

فُرصَت • (forsat)

1. opportunity, chance

   Synonym: شانس (šâns)

   هزینهٔ فرصت ― hazine-ye forsat ― opportunity cost

2. leisure, spare time

   Synonym: آنتراک (ântrâk)

3. (law) probation

Derived terms

(adjectives):

• فرصت جو (forsat-ju)
• فرصت طلب (forsat-talab)
• فرصت یاب (forsat-yâb)
• کم فرصت (kam-forsat)

(verbs):

• فرصت دادن (forsat dâdan)
• فرصت شمردن (forsat šomordan)
• فرصت کردن (forsat kardan)

Descendants

• → Bashkir: форсат (forsat)
• → Bengali: ফুরসত (furśot)
• → Gujarati: ફુરસદ (phursad), ફુરસત (phursat)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: फ़ुर्सत (fursat)

  Urdu: فرصت (fursat)

• → Kannada: ಪುರುಸತ್ತು (purusattu)
• → Kazakh: мұрсат (mūrsat)
• → Uyghur: پۇرسەت (purset)
• → Uzbek: fursat

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic فُرْصَة (furṣa)bor.

Classical Persian فُرْصَت (fursat)bor.

Urdu فُرْصَت (fursat)

Borrowed from Classical Persian فُرْصَت (fursat), borrowed from Arabic فُرْصَة (furṣa). First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi فرصت (frṣt).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /fʊɾ.sət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: فُر‧صَت

Noun

فُرْصَت • (fursat) f (Hindi spelling फ़ुर्सत)

1. occasion, chance; opportunity
2. leave
3. leisure; spare time
4. tranquillity
5. relief, respite

Declension

Declension of فرصت

	singular	plural
direct	فُرْصَت (fursat)	فُرْصَتیں (fursatẽ)
oblique	فُرْصَت (fursat)	فُرْصَتوں (fursatõ)
vocative	فُرْصَت (fursat)	فُرْصَتو (fursato)

Further reading

More information

• “فرصت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “فرصت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “فرصت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “فرصت”, 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