کفارہ

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian کَفَّارَه (kaffāra), from Arabic كَفَّارَة (kaffāra). Doublet of کَفَّارَت (kaffārat).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /kəf.fɑː.ɾɑ(ː)/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): [kə.fɑː.ɾɑː]

Noun

کَفَّارَہ • (kaffāra) m (Hindi spelling कफ़्फ़ारा)

1. penance; atonement; expiation (ie. for committing a sin)
2. indemnity; compensation

Declension

Declension of کفارہ

	singular	plural
direct	کَفَّارَہ (kaffārah)	کَفَّارے (kaffāre)
oblique	کَفَّارے (kaffāre)	کَفَّاروں (kaffārõ)
vocative	کَفَّارے (kaffāre)	کَفَّارو (kaffāro)

Further reading

• “کفارہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “کفارہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “کفاره”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “کفاره”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 839
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “کفاره”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 934
• John Shakespear (1834) “کفاره”, 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