معافی

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic مُعَاف (muʕāf), from root ع ف و (ʕ f w).

Noun

Dari	معافی
Iranian Persian
Tajik	муъофӣ, муофӣ

معافی • (mo'âfi)

1. exemption
2. immunity
3. forgiveness

Synonyms

• معافیت (mo'âfiyyat)

Related terms

• معاف (mo'âf)

Descendants

• → Punjabi: معافی (mu'āfī, māfī)
• → Urdu: معافی (mu'āfī, māfī)

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian معافی (mu'āfī), from Arabic مُعَاف (muʕāf).

Noun

معافی • (mu'āfī, māfī) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਮਾਫ਼ੀ)

1. forgiveness

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مُعَافِی (mu'āfī), from Arabic مُعَاف (muʕāf). Equivalent to معاف (mu'āf) +‎ ـی (-ī).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mʊ.(ʔ)ɑː.fiː/, [moɑ̯ː.fiː]
• (Punjabic Urdu, Delhi Urdu) IPA^(key): [mɑː.fiː]
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: مُ‧عا‧فی

Noun

مُعَافی • (mu'āfī) f (Hindi spelling माफ़ी)

1. forgiveness
2. pardon; absolvement
3. exemption; remission

Declension

Declension of معافی
	singular	plural
direct	مُعَافی (mu'āfī)	مُعَافِیاں (mu'āfiyā̃)
oblique	مُعَافی (mu'āfī)	مُعَافِیوں (mu'āfiyō̃)
vocative	مُعَافی (mu'āfī)	مُعَافِیو (mu'āfiyō)

See also

Urdu terms derived from the Arabic root ع ف و (0 c, 5 e)

Further reading

More information

• “معافی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “معافی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “معاف”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 595
• Platts, John T. (1884) “معافي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1046
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “معافی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “معافی”, 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