لفافہ

Urdu

Alternative forms

• لِفَافَا (lifāfā)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian لِفَافَه (lifāfa), itself from Arabic لِفافَة (lifāfa).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /lɪ.fɑː.fɑ(ː)/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: لِ‧فا‧فَہ

Noun

لِفافَہ • (lifāfa) m (Hindi spelling लिफ़ाफ़ा)

1. envelope
2. wrapper, cover
3. (Pakistani politics) sellout
4. (figuratively) bribe

Declension

Declension of لفافہ
	singular	plural
direct	لِفافَہ (lifāfah)	لِفافے (lifāfe)
oblique	لِفافے (lifāfe)	لِفافوں (lifāfõ)
vocative	لِفافے (lifāfe)	لِفافو (lifāfo)

Further reading

• “لفافہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “لفافہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “لفافہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “لفافه”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]