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وفا

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Persian

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Arabic وَفَاء (wafāʔ).

    Pronunciation

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    Readings
    Classical reading? wafā
    Dari reading? wafā
    Iranian reading? vafâ
    Tajik reading? vafo

    Noun

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    Dari وفا
    Iranian Persian
    Tajik вафо

    وفا (vafâ)

    1. loyalty; fidelity; constance
      Synonyms: وفاداری (vafâdâri), صداقت (sadâqat)
      • c. 1390, Hafez, “Ghazal 4”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divan of Hafez]:
        خز این قدر نتوان گفت در جمال تو عیب
        که وضع مهر وفا نیست روی زیبا را
        joz in qadar na-tavân goft dar jamâl-e to 'eyb
        ke vaz'-e mehr o vafâ nist ru-ye zibâ râ
        One cannot speak of any blemish in your charms, save this much; neither affection nor constancy is there on your beautiful face.

    Derived terms

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    Descendants

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    • Hindustani:
      Hindi: वफ़ा (vafā)
      Urdu: وَفَا (vafā)

    Proper noun

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    وفا (vafâ)

    1. a surname, Vafa or Vafo

    Urdu

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    Etymology

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      Borrowed from Classical Persian وَفَا (wafā), borrowed from Arabic وَفَاء (wafāʔ), from وَفَى (wafā). First attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi وفا (vfa /⁠vafā⁠/).[1]

      Pronunciation

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      Noun

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      وَفا (vafāf (Hindi spelling वफ़ा)

      1. loyalty
      2. fidelity

      Declension

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          Declension of وفا
      singular plural
      direct وَفا (vafā) وَفائیں (vafāẽ)
      oblique وَفا (vafā) وَفاؤں (vafāõ)
      vocative وَفا (vafā) وَفاؤ (vafāo)

      Derived terms

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      Proper noun

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      وَفا (vafāf (Hindi spelling वफ़ा)

      1. a female given name from Arabic

      References

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      1. ^ وفا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

      Further reading

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      • وفا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
      • Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “وفا”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]